The legal saga continues

Apart from the "high cost" of repairing the boy's face (and I'm not sure that it even needed stitching), damages were sought for the boy having to live in fear next to a dangerous dog, and for the fear of dogs that resulted. The family had a Samoyed dog, and at no time did the boy look scared of his own dog. Though he may have shown greater respect for other dogs.

Through our association with dog friendly people we found a Queen's Counsel and dog breeder that without fee, helped us with our defence. We had a household Insurance policy which covered events such as we had experienced, so in the end they took it over.

We took photos of the boy playing with dogs, wrote lots of letters detailing the events, and the family spent money on photos in a futile effort to prove the boy had been grossly disfigured. (It was very difficult to see the scar from the injury in photos). They had several photos done, and each had to have on it a pencilled mark of the injury!

It spurred me on to move. If we moved into another council area, we would be out of the jurisdiction of the council, which still showed some interest in appeasing our neighbour who still wanted Koko "put down." They feared living next door to us!
We bought a house in Stafford Heights, in the neighbouring council area, and we all moved. In the end there was no court case, our insurance company settled with our now ex-neighbours, for a sum of money that we were told was far less than they had asked for, and in the end they would have profited little from the exercise.

We moved.