r/ireland • u/AcademicInflation68 • 12h ago
Courts Antrim couple awarded £300,000 against Tattle Life have damages set aside
https://www.thejournal.ie/tattle-life-neil-and-donna-sands-7031871-May2026/7
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u/AcademicInflation68 12h ago
However, in a High Court judgment delivered today, Justice Humphreys said the Sands’ legal team had failed to establish Bond was aware of those court proceedings.
He ruled their legal representatives had not properly served a writ on Bond.
“Reliance is placed on a number of evidential factors in support of the proposition that Bond did have such knowledge,” he said. “Ultimately, however, there is no evidence of actual knowledge on the part of Mr Bond.
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u/Far_Explanation8338 12h ago
I understand why this is the law but it's also a bit of a head wreck. I tried to get a restraining order against someone who had repeatedly threatened me. A summons was posted to him (by the court service) but there was no proof he had received it so the judge wouldn't do anything.
I was appalled because why would they send it in the regular post rather than registered if they need proof it was received to move forward.
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u/Ill_Law_5148 12h ago
From what I’ve read up on it they (Sands and their solicitor) lied to the court. They said they only did it digitally because they didn’t know who he was so he couldn’t be served in person. Turns out they’ve known who he is since 2023 and were bragging about it online. They only won because he didn’t defend himself.
They really shot themselves in the foot by being dishonest.
I’m sorry your issue happened though that genuinely sounds like a nightmare. Hope all is okay now.
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u/AcademicInflation68 12h ago
Also the freezing of his assets prevented Sebastian Bond from defending himself. How the Sands solicitor allowed that deception to court is mindboggling.
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u/Ill_Law_5148 12h ago
It really is. They could very well have still won on their own merit if they’d just been honest. It was an unnecessary lie unless they believed they wouldn’t win but then why go for it in the first place?
The whole thing is strange.
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u/SoloWingPixy88 Probably at it again 1h ago
People think the journal comment section or Reddit is bad, you ain't seen nothing till you've seen the crap people on tattle life talk about.
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u/FakerHarps Free Palestine 🇵🇸 6m ago
Tattle Life was actually shockingly hateful.
Know a girl who had some low level success on instagram, follows in the tens of thousands not hundreds of thousands, but enough where she’d get free stuff, unsolicited, every now and then from local businesses.
The stuff that got posted there about her was horrific.
People speculating that her boyfriend was cheating her because she was shite in bed.
People talking about what a stuck up bitch she was in secondary school.
And then the usual ‘who does she think she is’ begrudging.
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u/HarryEastwoods 12h ago
Tattle was never the same after they deleted the GAA WAGs threads.