The final settlement between the school and the family was confidential. Photo: NZ HeraldAuckland Grammar School offered to pay $20,000 to the family of a student whose jaw was smashed by another student in 2005, a High Court judgment says. "What happened to Mr Liu was horrifying," she said in a judgment dated January 31 this year. Auckland Grammar offered the family $20,000 to settle their claim against the school, but by December 2008 the family had already paid $20,000 in legal fees and owed a further $15,125.82. The final settlement between the school and the family was confidential, but Justice Hinton said: "As they presumably settled for at least $20,000, they also did well in terms of the dollar payment, compared with what many might have predicted for such a case."

Source: Otago Daily Times March 14, 2018 00:22 UTC