April 2022

https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/parents-to-gain-right-to-request-flexible-working Parents and carers will gain a right to request flexible working, including the right to request compressed or reduced hours, under legislation expected to be enacted by the summer. The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill, now being drafted by the Office of the Attorney General, will transpose elements of the EU Work […]

Johnny Depp’s testimony continued on Wednesday afternoon with more bombshell revelations about his marriage to Amber Heard. After lunch, the 58-year-old actor returned to the stand and described in detail about multiple times he was allegedly abused. During the “staircase incident,” the actor claimed Heard “roundhouse” punched him in the cheek. “[Amber’s sister] stepped in

The boy suffered significant scalding injuries and has been left with four inch scar. A judge has approved a €40,000 damages settlement offer to a 14-year-old schoolboy who was accidentally scalded as staff at a Dublin school was preparing a noodles lunch for him. Barrister Esther Earley told Judge John O’Connor in the Circuit Civil

Bridget Delaney’s action questions the legal basis of the guidelines, which have resulted in damages awarded being reduced by 40 per cent There would be “riots on Trafalgar Square” if the personal injury guidelines in England had regard to the level of damages awarded in Ireland, a court has heard. The claim was made as

A shoplifter bit off the ear of a Tesco customer who tried to stop him stealing razors, lamb and champagne before swallowing it and saying: “I have HIV”, a court has heard. When other customers told the victim to go and look for his missing ear in the wake of the attack, he told them:

A protestant worker who claimed he was “intimidated” out of a Dundalk factory because his colleagues played “anti-British” songs on repeat has had his claim for sectarian harassment rejected. One song included the lyrics “go home you British bastards”, the Workplace Relations Commission was told. His former employer told the commission, however, that the worker

A judge has warned the parents of two “school shy” children that she will send them both to prison unless their children have a 100pc attendance record in school from now on. Kilrush District Court heard a 15-year-old girl has not attended school at all in the current school year while her 11-year-old brother has

A woman who was hit by a train near her home in Co Tipperary as a child a decade ago has settled her High Court action for €400,000. Mary Ryan was nine-years-old when the incident happened at Tipperary town on the Waterford- Limerick Junction line. Approving the settlement, reached without admission of liability, Mr Justice

A senior barrister accused of murdering a man in a shooting on farmland in Dublin has taken up €100,000 bail and was released from custody on Tuesday, a court has heard. Law professor Diarmuid Phelan (53) is accused of the murder of father-of-four, Keith Conlon, at Hazelgrove Farm, Kiltalown Lane, Tallaght, on February 22. The

PIAB guidelines have ‘immediate and colossal’ impact on insurance payout By Mary Carolan, 12th April 2022 The Personal Injuries Assessment Board’s average award last year dropped by 42 per cent in the wake of new guidelines slashing awards for minor personal injuries entering into force and fuelling calls for cheaper insurance. Almost half – 49