{"id":408610,"date":"2026-04-20T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408610\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:47:08","slug":"judge-says-dublin-man-may-face-criminal-charges-over-failed-e60k-personal-injury-claim-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408610\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge says Dublin man may face criminal charges over failed \u20ac60K personal injury claim \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A judge has warned a Dublin<\/a> man he may face criminal charges for attempting to deceive the legal system to gain money under false pretences.<\/p>\n

Judge John Martin told Conor Fallon, a 30-year-old personal trainer, that what he told the Circuit Civil Court<\/a> during a \u20ac60,000 damages claim related to a car crash was \u201cnothing but a lie\u201d.<\/p>\n

Fallon, of Cushlawn Park, Tallaght<\/a>, was told the documents from his personal injuries case would be referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions<\/a> (DPP) for consideration.<\/p>\n

He had claimed he suffered severe neck and lower back injuries when he was rear-ended at traffic lights on Leopardstown Road, Dublin, in September 2023. <\/p>\n

Lawyers for Axa<\/a>, insurer for two of the defendants, claimed the contact was so minimal that it could not have caused the injuries complained of.<\/p>\n

Earlier, barrister Neal McDonald suggested Fallon had lied to a consultant in emergency medicine who examined him on behalf of Axa, when he said he had not been involved in any previous or subsequent accidents.<\/p>\n

McDonald, who appeared with Liz Lyons of Hayes McGrath Solicitors, told the court Fallon had subsequently overturned and wrote off his mother\u2019s SUV after causing \u20ac18,000 damage to a parked truck. He fled the scene but found garda\u00ed waiting for him when he arrived home.<\/p>\n

The judge, having risen to allow the parties time for talks, returned and was told Fallon was withdrawing his claim, which could be struck out. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou made a false statement or you have misled the court, either perjuring yourself or knowingly made a false statement in the course of an investigation,\u201d he said after asking Fallon to return to the witness box.<\/p>\n

The judge told Fallon he \u201ccould not have believed this to be true\u201d when he informed the consultant he had not been involved in another accident.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was nothing but a lie,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The judge said it was a very serious matter that Fallon had come into court knowingly setting out to deceive the system in the hope of gaining money by false pretences.<\/p>\n

\u201cI view this as a very serious matter and I am referring documents in the case to the DPP,\u201d he said. \u201cAll of the papers I have received will be retained on the court file.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judge said every person was entitled to be fairly and properly compensated for injuries suffered, adding that Fallon\u2019s case had been \u201cup against it\u201d on the minimal impact issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo compound the situation with perjury and to make a false statement to deceive a doctor or a court solely for the basis of compensation was a very serious matter and must be considered by the DPP,\u201d he said, adding that there was no indication of any wrongdoing on the part of Fallon\u2019s legal team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge has warned a Dublin man he may face criminal charges for attempting to deceive the legal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,46866,13553,16186,615,61,60,43,13356],"class_list":{"0":"post-408610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-axa","10":"tag-circuit-court","11":"tag-director-of-public-prosecutions","12":"tag-dublin","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-tallaght"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}