correct me where I'm wrong (as IF I had a doubt you would ...) but aren't two different processes involved here, and getting confused?
1. The family lawyer'd up and plans to sue RCCL for negligence ... a civil matter? {personal injury law ......
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2. The P.R. GOVERNMENT / police have pressed criminal negligence charges against grandpa (after an investigation) ... that's
not civil court, it's criminal court ain't it?
A STRONG point in RCCL defense would appear to be the criminal charges ...... IF the criminal goes to trial & grandpa looses, bye bye civil case. Even if not sent to trial, the disposition of this charge will play ....
of course on the other hand there's the OJ example . . . .
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consider this:
when a person moves a chair over to the rail and uses this to climb onto the rail - when the ship has RULES that say don't sit or stand on the rail - and
then falls over board, is the ship negligent for having chairs, or rails not high enuf????? {IOW should balconies be enclosed}
I've been on this ship ... the rail is HIGH, the window is above the rail. The child can't get up their on their own . . . hence the adult facilitated the accident by a bad decision.