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[Kyle]

You know what they say, the counsel doesn’t fall far from the client.

[blackjack]

Remy farrell left smarting it seems. He’s not used to getting a dressing down I’d say. Serves him right for representing that scumbag.

[glasagusban]

Excellent. Go fuck yourself Remy Farrell.

[flattythehurdler]

This is what I find interesting, but nobody will answer this question. They prefer slinging rape apologist comments in the general direction of anyone who asks.

[Kyle]

The group think karens

[mikehunt]

The judge said McGregor raped her. Not sure what more you want here.

[Jahan]

I don’t see anything wrong with a bit of intellectual curiosity around the legal system.

It’s possible to believe McGregor is a rapist scumbag and also want to understand more about the legal process that took place.

[glasagusban]

It’s been spoonfed to them about 17 times at this stage.

[Kyle]

Its very straight forward. As per the legal remit of a civil court, a jury found that mcgregor more likely than not raped Mrs Hand and as such the judge found him liable of assault by means of rape.

[Aertel220]

The woman in question here was 49? Conor targeting older ladies now it seems. Sounds like a sophisticated type who surely wouldn’t have much in common with McGregor.

[Mac]

@Kyle

Assault by means of rape.

Is there a reason for Assault being what he is liable for?.. is there a technical reason that it has to be presented to a civil court as assault rather than rape ? Or was it more of a move by her solicitor hoping that some level of assault would stick?

RTE1 had someone on explaining this earlier. You can claim for damages in a Civil Court for Assault. I’m not sure if you can claim for damages in a Civil Court for Sexual Assault or Rape. The terminology is directly linked to what’s being sought.

I believe Mr Farrell may even have tried to use this to his advantage in an earlier discussion today before Judge Owens told him to cop the fuck on.

I’ll let one of the legal eagles on here expand on this if they wish as I’m only relaying what I heard / read.

[Mac]

@Fagan_ODowd

Conor had his eye wiped in court today. At one stage the judge laughed at the grounds of appeal that are to be put forward by his counsel. Counsel took umbrage at this and demanded to be treated with respect.

It’s an amazing interaction

[Chancer]

Not a good day for Remy Farrell. Wasn’t he representing Graham Dwyer in the past. He needs to pull a Johnnie Cochran rabbit out of a hat shortly.

[flattythehurdler]

The judge did, but I thought the civil case was specifically “assault”.
I’m genuinely interested in this. If it was assault, and the jury found on the balance of probability that McGregor assaulted her, that’s one thing. I’m more interested in the leap to the specific accusation of guilty of rape.
He remains innocent in the eyes of the law as far as I can ascertain. The interest, and it is an interesting point, is whether he can be legally publicly being spoken of as a rapist on the basis of a civil case which as far as I’m aware didn’t actually mention the word.
There are folk on here find this difficult to grasp, hence accusations of spoonfeeding etc.

[flattythehurdler]

@Kyle

a jury found that mcgregor more likely than not raped Mrs Hand

Did they though? I thought the charge was assault?

[Gman]

Im not sure if you were just breezing through reports, but the judge was veyond clear throughout

The judge told the jurors in the civil action that “rape is a form of assault” and if they found in Ms Hand’s favour they would have to award substantial damages as “rape is a very serious matter”.

[Gman]

@Gman

Does the evidence prove she was assaulted by Mr McGregor in the penthouse of the Beacon?

"Does the evidence prove she was assaulted by Mr Lawrence?

"Those are the beginning middle and end of the case and everything rotates around those two questions.

“She alleges she was raped, they say no and say it was consensual. This is two separate legal actions heard together for administrative convenience.”

Returning to the issue of tort, he said most torts in law arise out of negligence cases.

An assault is also a tort, an assault is a non-consensual intentional contact with a person.

so @flattythehurdler for the purposes of the legal action, the rape was considered an assault. Some people seemed to have been hanging onto the fact that they answered “yes” to her being assaulted by him, but the assault was the term used for rape. The judge has very clearly since then referred to the case as being rape.

@flattythehurdler i knew i responded to you before on this! As said by mac earlier, it is entered in as a general assault charge, with asaault in this instance being rape. There is no ambiguity or no trying to hide behind it as being confusing.

[flattythehurdler]

This is the precise point of interest though. He was found liable for an assault. Was he specifically found liable for assault by rape, or not?
Also does liable in a civil court mean he can now be openly described as such when in the eyes of the law he is entirely innocent?

[neilld]

If you call him a rapist and he sues you in civil court, you will win because on the balance of probabilities you are speaking the truth!

[TheUlteriorMotive]

The word “sexual” was never put to the jury.

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2025/0116/1491228-conor-mcgregor/

Mr Farrell said there was also an issue about the “interpretation of the jury’s verdict” as the issue paper they had to complete did not ask them if Mr McGregor had “sexually” assaulted Ms Hand.

However, Mr Justice Owens said he gave his direction in the legal argument based on a Supreme Court ruling and he doubted there was very much room to appeal