Marie Gibson wins €75,000 fraud damages as mortgage charge set aside

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Marie Gibson won €75,000 in exemplary damages after the High Court found her daughter had defrauded her, in a judgment reported on 28 June 2023.

The court also set aside the mortgage charge over Gibson’s home in Coolock, Dublin, and ordered that the property register be corrected. It found the receiver’s appointment invalid.

The judge separately ordered solicitor Kevin O’Gorman to pay Gibson €35,000 in compensatory and aggravated damages, after previously finding him negligent in the transaction.

On 12 July 2023, the judge directed that two judgments in the case be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, which would decide whether to bring criminal charges against Pauline Gibson.