DISAPPOINTMENT about a hair do fell far short of the disaster to which it had been compared in court, a judge said yesterday.
Awarding Ms Frances McNab, of Sheepmore Lawn, Blakestown, Mulhuddart, Co Dublin, £2,500 damages in the Circuit Civil Court, Judge James Carroll said it was understandable she had cried over her damaged hair and bizarre looks.
Breaking down and crying when she went home was not unusual in the feminine temperament, he said, but in the real scale of values they were very far from disaster.
Judge Carroll told Mr Eamon Marray, for Ms McNab, he felt his client had become very alive to the litigious possibilities of the situation. "Alas, for people who undertake litigation they expose themselves to being the object of these frequently unpleasant conclusions."
Ms McNab, who sued hairstylist Ms Catherine Aver, of Corduff Avenue, Blanchardstown, Dublin, was told her claim should have been confined to the £5,000 jurisdiction of the District Court.
Judge Carroll ordered Ms McNab to pay Ms Aver the difference in legal costs between what it would have taken to hear the case in the lower court and what it cost to have it heard in the Circuit Court. His order will effectively wipe out her £2,500 award.