Jury in civil case against Conor McGregor to continue High Court deliberations

The assemblage successful a civilian lawsuit against Conor McGregor volition proceed its deliberations astatine the High Court successful Dublin connected Friday.

Mr McGregor is facing an accusation successful the civilian enactment that helium “brutally raped and battered” Nikita Hand astatine a edifice successful southbound Dublin successful December 2018.

The Irish sports prima antecedently told the tribunal helium had consensual enactment with Ms Hand successful a penthouse astatine the Beacon Hotel.

Ms Hand, who is besides known arsenic Nikita Ni Laimhin, is besides suing different man, James Lawrence, for assault.

Following 2 weeks of grounds and a fig of days listening to closing speeches and the judges’ charge, the assemblage of 8 women and 4 men started their deliberations astatine 3.03pm connected Thursday.

Justice Owens spent 2 days summing up grounds heard implicit 8 days, from witnesses including Ms Hand, Mr McGregor, Mr Lawrence, arsenic good arsenic police, paramedics, psychiatrists, an actuary, colleagues of Ms Hand arsenic good arsenic a erstwhile main forensic aesculapian officer.

He told the assemblage that helium has concluded the grounds and is present asking them to spell and deliberate successful narration to the matters.

He reminded them of a fig of ineligible principles, including the modular of impervious successful a civilian lawsuit which is connected the equilibrium of probabilities and that the onus of impervious rests connected the plaintiff.

Justice Owens besides reminded the jury, that if they scope a verdict to grant damages, determination are a fig of types of damages to see including general, which covers symptom and suffering to day and into the future, arsenic good arsenic distress and designation of vindication.

Another benignant of harm includes aggravated harm which is outgo to designation of offences that daze the plaintiff.

He urged them to beryllium cautious not to treble number and to guarantee they constitute everything down.

Exemplary damages are punitive damages which are to punish the defendant.

He said it should beryllium an offence that is truly serious, and that they tin respect rape arsenic truly serious.

Justice Owens besides said that idiosyncratic attempting to screen up matters oregon making statements that are “patently untrue” are besides serious.

Justice Owens told the assemblage to support some of their feet “firmly connected the ground” and to “use their communal sense”.

He told the assemblage that if they scope the signifier of awarding damages, and erstwhile assessing what to springiness erstwhile for nonaccomplishment of earnings, to deduct 15% from their figure.

He told them this was called a deduction for contingencies arsenic we unrecorded successful “an uncertain world”, and the courts accidental these things person to beryllium taken into account.

While successful the assemblage room, the assemblage volition person an contented insubstantial wherever they grounds their decisions.

It states 2 questions. The archetypal is did Mr McGregor battle Ms Hand and the 2nd is did Mr Lawrence battle Ms Hand.

They indispensable reply yes oregon nary to the questions. If they reply nary to some past the substance ends determination and Ms Hand loses her case.

If they reply yes to 1 oregon more, past the assemblage volition determination to the adjacent signifier and measure what damages to grant Ms Hand.

Justice Owens warned the assemblage not to speech to anyone astir their deliberations, including their loved ones who helium said whitethorn beryllium funny successful the case.

He told the assemblage to “look astatine each the evidence”.

While outlining the summary of Mr McGregor’s evidence, the assemblage were told that they cannot gully immoderate adverse inference from his “no comment” answers to constabulary weeks aft the alleged incident.