An unlawful act need not be a crime.\u00a0 A civil wrong may be enough.\u00a0 The court may make an award for such amounts as the person injured ought to receive.\u00a0 Damage means loss.\u00a0 Compensation is paid to the owner or as above trustee or bailee.<\/p>\n
In the case of premises, the measure of compensation is the cost of reconstruction less enhanced value established from materials etc. In the case of a lessee, the amount of compensation is based on the riparian covenant.\u00a0 If there are rights to renewals, this may be taken into account.<\/p>\n
Consequential loss is not recoverable.\u00a0 Summarily loss of profits, bank interest and indirect expenses in hiring other materials such as a car during repair are consequential.<\/p>\n\n
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Scope The malicious injuries legislation was reformed very significantly in the 1980s.\u00a0 Due to economic considerations, it was tightened considerably so that compensation was available in much more limited circumstances than had previously been the case. Where damage of more than \u20ac127 is caused to property unlawfully by one of a number of at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27798"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30378,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27798\/revisions\/30378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}