A senior engineer who was bound and had shots fired over his head when he tried to enter an oil facility in the United Arab Emirates without the proper pass is to receive £100,000 damages, a High Court judge has ruled.
Michael Duggan secured the payout after successfully suing his former employers, Carrickfergus -based firm Advanced Sensors Ltd, for an alleged breach in its duty of care.
Mr Justice McAlinden held that the risks from an ad-hoc arrangement to gain access to the military-guarded site were clearly foreseeable.
