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- ▼ 2023 (8)
- ▼ February (1)
- ▼ January (7)
- Farmer suing over bull injury must disclose medical records to mart
- Dozens of amateur rugby players send brain injury letter of claim to rugby authorities (Via Irish Times)
- ‘Fierce shortage of judges’ causes personal injuries case to be delayed (Via Irish Times)
- Sharp fall in High Court personal injuries claims sparks demands for insurers to pass on benefits (Via Irish Times)
- Cycling injuries on Luas tracks ‘a significant public health issue’, study finds (Via Irish Times)
- Woman settles case over alleged birth injuries for €31m (Via Irish Times)
- Boy injured when his zip allegedly got caught in washing machine door settles for €25k (via Irish Examiner)
- ► 2022 (218)
- ► December (13)
- Psychologist accused of ‘over-egging’ her pudding as €60,000 injury claim dismissed (via The Irish Times)
- Enoch Burke begs three times to be freed from Mountjoy as parents clash with judge (via Independent.ie)
- Schoolgirl left scarred after acid splashed onto her face in science class settles action for €45,000 (via Independent.ie)
- Just For Fun (via The Daily Upside)
- CervicalCheck case: ‘Her blood is on the Government’s hands’ - Teap family settle as labs admit breach of duty (via Irish Times)
- HSE and hospital apologise for substandard care as boy’s case settles for €9m (via The Irish Times)
- First Irish trial of four-day week ‘a resounding success’ (via Irish Legal News)
- Court approves €3.5m interim settlement for woman over alleged birth injury (via Irish Times)
- Solicitor awarded €105,000 for ‘nasty fracture’ from beer garden slip (via Irish Times)
- Just For Fun (via The Daily Upside)
- Young disabled man awarded €1m over serious brain injury in assault at respite centre (via Independent.ie)
- Court of Appeal orders fresh hearing of actions by women injured while dismounting playground swing (via Irish Times)
- Determining if You Have a Cancer Misdiagnosis Case (via Paul & Perkins - USA)
- ► November (18)
- Just For Fun (via the Daily Upside)
- Gary Matthews Solicitors Success Story: Case alleging liquid leaked from cannula and burned baby’s foot settled for €75,000 (via Irish Times)
- Employment lawyer and TikTok sensation Richard Grogan has passed away (via Joe.ie)
- Award of €60,000 to bus driver over alleged slip on ice overturned by appeal court (via Irish Times)
- Garda who was pulled down steps of airplane by asylum seeker awarded almost €88,000 in damages (via Independent.ie)
- Number of accusers who have made Spiritan sex abuse claims rises to 300 (via Irish Times)
- Man who suffered brain injury in car crash outside GAA grounds as teen settles case for €2.7m (via Independent.ie)
- ISME pays €75,000 in damages to solicitor in defamation action (via Irish Times)
- Jesuits have paid €7.4m in settlement costs to abuse survivors (via The Irish Times)
- US lawyer who won $4.7bn talcum powder ruling targets UK next (via Irish Legal News)
- €2m award for Donegal couple exposed to toxic chemicals from home spray foam insulation upheld (via Independent.ie)
- ‘Unacceptable’ litigation culture on expert evidence needs to change, judges warn (via Irish Times)
- €30,000 settlement for girl who fell and cut her head on school chair while coming in from yard (via Independent.ie)
- High Court upholds the constitutionality of the personal injuries guidelines (via Lexology)
- Insurers run out of excuses for high premiums as awards for compensation close to 15-year low (via Independent.ie)
- Man loses €60,000 personal injury case against Dublin’s Merrion Inn (via Irish Times)
- Mean PIAB award down 38%, with 75% below €15,000 (via The Law Society)
- €15m maternity hospital settlement for boy with autism is biggest of its kind (via Independent.ie)
- ► October (14)
- ‘What harm would it have done for HSE to say sorry?’ – Family of cervical cancer victim settle legal action over alleged misdiagnosis (via Independent.ie)
- Kerry boy (12) left with brain injury after car crash settles case for almost €10m (via Breaking News.ie)
- Worker withdraws personal injuries claim after forgetting alleged accident date (via Irish Times)
- High Court uses new guidelines to award €87,000 to carer knocked off her bike (via Irish Times)
- PIAB to have role in Garda compensation claims (via Irish Legal News)
- Friends’ personal injury claims dismissed over misleading evidence (via Independent.ie)
- Court hears woman’s case over alleged delay to cervical cancer diagnosis (via The Irish Times)
- Mother-of-two who said she fractured her finger in alleged car rear-ending sees €60k personal injury claim struck out (via Independent.ie)
- Woman seen on CCTV to ‘genuflect’ before collapsing on floor of Penneys loses €38,000 damages claim (via Independent.ie)
- Victims of AI-related damage to benefit from proposed changes to EU liability rules (via Irish Legal News)
- High Court upholds decision to dismiss former inmate’s personal injuries claim over prison fall (via Irish Times)
- Differences in legal systems North and South pose challenges for unification, report says (via Irish Times)
- Clown arrested for balloon sale to kids in city centre (via Independent.ie)
- Three Irish former rugby players sue IRFU over alleged head injuries (via Irish Times)
- ► September (14)
- Bank of Ireland hit with record €100m fine over tracker mortgage scandal (via Irish Times)
- Prosecution of Soldier F for Bloody Sunday killings to resume (via Irish Times)
- Former horse racing trainer convicted of assaulting farmer with a whip (via Irish Times)
- Judge orders arrest of ‘Revolutionary Housing League’ members occupying Dublin building earmarked for apartments (via Independent.ie)
- School teacher Enoch Burke sent back to Mountjoy Prison after bid for freedom fails (via Independent.ie)
- Young mother bled to death following ‘systems failure’ at Limerick hospital, inquest hears (via Irish Times)
- Barrister accused of murder wants to return to his farm, court told (via Irish Times)
- Taxi driver who shared videos of couple engaged in ‘sex act’ in back of cab appeals three-year ban (via Independent.ie)
- https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/teacher-enoch-burke-sent-to-mountjoy-prison-for-contempt-of-court-41960828.html
- Prison service to pay €55k to official not allowed to work from home during pandemic (via Irish Legal News)
- School seeks to have teacher Enoch Burke jailed over alleged breach of court order in row over transgender student (via Independent.ie)
- Barrister brings action against Beacon Hospital over alleged treatment refusal (via Irish Times)
- Meet the Burkes: Suspended teacher Enoch Burke hails from a controversial family of evangelical Christians (via Independent.ie)
- Vulture fund pauses house repossession bid amid claims it breached Central Bank rules (via Independent.ie)
- ► August (20)
- Winner of our Adare Manor draw announced!
- Irish barristers could follow English example with strike action (via Irish Legal News)
- Coursing club refused injunction restraining land owner from locking it out of grounds (via Irish Times)
- High Court directs gardaí to arrest 75-year-old tenant for ignoring orders (via The Irish Times)
- Suspended solicitor is arrested in probe into alleged €4m theft (via Independent.ie)
- Dublin postman accused of stealing TV, scooter and runners in packages valued at €776 (via Independent.ie)
- UK: Infected blood victims to receive £100k interim compensation payment (via Irish Legal News)
- Courts Service received 131 formal complaints in 2021 (via Irish Times)
- Two women to have debts totalling €1.2m written off after High Court overturns PIA refusal (via Independent.ie)
- Dad of four (35) who died while hunting with his dog was killed by a gunshot wound to the head, inquest hears (via Independent.ie)
- Irish courts dealing with over half a million cases per year (via Irish Legal News)
- US: Last woman convicted in Salem witch trials exonerated (via Irish Legal News)
- Explained: FBI raid latest of Trump's legal woes (via RTE News)
- Brothers now in 10th year of legal battle with each other over field in Co Clare (via Irish Times)
- Retired High Court president Mary Irvine: ‘I have left the job that I have loved most’ (via The Irish Times)
- Bill to create reformed Personal Injuries Resolution Board published (via Irish Legal News)
- Prisoner in van rammed in attempted breakout sues over injuries (via Irish Times)
- GAA club’s bar manager claims she lost job after objecting to Covid-19 drinking (via Irish Times)
- PIAB reports €118m drop in value of personal injuries awards in last two years (via RTE.ie)
- High Court: €60,000 awarded under new guidelines for girl suffering from moderate PTSD and minor white scar on thigh (via Irish Legal News)
- ► July (18)
- Judge throws out fitness instructor’s €60k fall claim after seeing ‘extreme physical activity’ snaps on Instagram (via Independent.ie)
- Amber Heard to appeal order to pay $10m in Depp defamation case (via The Guardian)
- Personal injury awards and legal fees fell during past decade, report finds (via Independent.ie)
- Woman who fell off stage at ceremony where she received employee award sues employer and hotel that hosted event (via Independent.ie)
- Teenager with skin cancer who sued over misdiagnosis settles action for €2m (via Irish Times)
- Appeal court upholds €302,000 award for old injury worsened by traffic accident (via Irish Times)
- Parents ask to see ‘evidence of change’ as hospital apologises over baby’s death (via Irish Times)
- Woman awarded €117,000 after injuring ankle in slip on icy path (via The Irish Times)
- €40,000 settlement after cabin pressure drop left some Ryanair passengers with bleeding ears during emergency landing (via Independent.ie)
- Claimant loses £49k damages as High Court overturns ‘injustice’ finding (via The Law Society Gazette)
- Summary Summons Not Adequately Pleaded (via Lexology)
- Committee backs ‘swift passage’ for PIAB reform bill (via Irish Legal News)
- Analysis: The introduction of class actions in Ireland (via Irish Legal News)
- Woman’s ‘opportunistic’ €60,000 personal injuries claim thrown out (via Independent.ie)
- Family of man who needs full-time care after being crushed by forklift settles actions for €3m (via Independent.ie)
- Dad-of-three who filmed woman during sex and shared video on Snapchat without consent is jailed (via Independent.ie)
- High Court: Defendant estopped from relying on Statute of Limitations following admission of liability and settlement requests (via Irish Legal News)
- Ireland has too many barristers, with many suffering financially, report finds (via The Irish Times)
- ► June (17)
- Vaginal mesh injury: ‘I really thought I was going to die’ (via The Irish Times)
- Stark warning over ‘crisis of unmet legal need’ in Ireland (vi Irish Legal News)
- US Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade abortion ruling (via RTE News)
- Legal history made as more women than men granted top lawyer titles (via Independent.ie)
- Bill enabling barristers and solicitors to provide joint legal services looms (via Irish Legal News)
- High Court: Applicant fails in challenge to PIAB assessment based on inadequate reasoning for €11,000 award (via Irish Legal News)
- Man (20) settles €6m action over delay in diagnosing brain tumour (via Irish Times)
- Court dismisses Dunnes Stores appeal over slip and fall payout (via Irish Times)
- High Court rejects challenge to PI guidelines (Via Law Society)
- Nearly 300 barristers petition justice minister over ‘unsustainable’ District Court fees (via Irish Legal News)
- Body-building garda withdraws injury claims after weightlifting video shown in court (via Independent.ie)
- Insurers urged to deliver cuts after challenge to guidelines slashing minor injury awards fails (via Irish Times)
- High Court rejects lead challenge over new guidelines slashing awards for minor injuries (via The Irish Times)
- Jury fails to reach agreement in Michael Lynn’s multimillion-euro theft case (via The Irish Times)
- Three jailed for trespassing at family home repossessed by mortgage company (via Independent.ie)
- High Court ruling on criminal prosecutions by gardaí may mean ‘a lot’ of adjournments (via The Irish Times)
- High Court to rule on lead challenge over new guidelines slashing awards for minor injuries (via Irish Times)
- ► May (15)
- Man hit by drunk driver in Malta settles court action (via RTE)
- Woman awarded €16,400 in fall from defective chair in Supermacs (via Independent.ie)
- Glass factory worker who was struck by several sheets of glass which fell from trolley awarded €120,000 (via Independent.ie)
- Proposed changes to duty of care law aimed at reducing insurance costs (via Irish Times)
- Rotunda apologises and makes €3.7m interim settlement for boy’s birth injuries (via Independent.ie)
- Burglars will no longer be able to claim for suffering injury (via Independent.ie)
- Hospital caterer challenges award under new personal injury guidelines (via Irish Times)
- Bride’s wedding dress was stained with blood after she helped guest injured in golf-buggy accident (via Independent.ie)
- Factory worker injured by falling glass awarded damages (via The Irish Times)
- Doctor’s registration cancelled due to ‘lack of expertise’ (via The Irish Times)
- Irish woman’s legal action against singer Rihanna for alleged ‘malicious falsehoods’ in email and phone call to go ahead (via Independent.ie)
- Boy (13) settles case over ‘fairly violent’ road collision for €4 million (via Irish Times)
- Married couple trying for baby forced to abandon sexual relations for six months following needle incident on train (via Independent.ie)
- Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) has apologised after a mother died when she fell out of a bed while breastfeeding, her newborn son suffocated beneath her. Marie Downey broke her neck in the fall three days after giving birth to her third child, Darragh. The Downey family counsel, Dr John O’Mahony SC, told the High Court this was a profoundly tragic and heartbreaking case. He said that when Ms Downey was removed from the ground in her hospital room her baby was found suffocated. Darragh died the next day at just four days old after suffering an irreversible brain injury, said counsel. The apology came as Ms Downey’s husband, Kieran Downey (40), of Knockanevin, Kilmallock, Limerick, settled a High Court action over the deaths of his wife and son.
- Terminally ill girl (12) settles action over alleged delay to tumour diagnosis (via Irish Times)
- ► April (15)
- Parents to gain right to request flexible working (via Irish Legal News)
- Amber Heard admits to 'hitting' Johnny Depp in recording (via: AOL)
- Schoolboy (14) awarded €40,000 after accidental scalding by noodles at school (via Irish Times)
- Waterford woman begins legal challenge to new personal injury award guidelines (via BusinessPost.ie)
- Shoplifter bites off Tesco customer’s ear and swallows it, court hears (via Irish Times)
- Protestant who claimed ‘intimidation’ when colleagues played ‘anti-British’ songs has claim rejected (via Independent.ie)
- Judge threatens to jail parents of truant children who missed school over ‘headaches’ and ‘anxiety’ (via Independent.ie)
- Woman hit by train a decade ago settles High Court action for €400,000 (via Irish Times)
- Barrister accused of murdering dog breeder released on €100k bail (via Independent.ie)
- 'Colossal' drop in personal injury awards which fall by 42% after new guidelines (via Irish Times)
- Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal to begin processing complaints (via Irish legal News)
- Owners of husky-type dog that attacked boy during hurling training must pay €95,000 compensation (via Independent.ie)
- Jozef Puska accused of murder of teacher Ashling Murphy to be tried in Central Criminal Court (via Independent.ie)
- High Covid-19 rates trigger adjournment of District Court cases (via Irish Times)
- Marshmallow and chocolate thief ‘was disgusted with himself’ (via Independent.ie)
- ► March (24)
- Call for super tax on insurers who are accused of turning Ireland into ‘treasure island’ (via Independent.ie)
- New law to allow Irish consumers to bring class actions in High Court (via Irish Legal News)
- PIAB ratchets up fees to offset €3.5m deficit (via Business Post)
- €16,500 for woman who walked into doors at workplace and smashed her front teeth (via Independent.ie)
- Girl who suffered catastrophic brain injury when she was knocked down by speeding doctor awarded €3m (via Independent.ie)
- €2bn case ‘in flux’ as lawyers seek to drop Russian clients (via Irish Independent)
- Court awards €126,000 to passenger injured when bus braked suddenly (via Irish Times)
- Irish journalist Pierre Zakrzewski killed in Ukraine after vehicle hit by Russian shelling (via Irish Times)
- Security man loses action against Dunnes over fall while trying to fix camera (via Irish Times)
- Judge dismisses case of girl stung by wasps at Dublin Zoo
- In the High Court case of Philomena Hennessy (the “Plaintiff”) v. Ladbrooks Payments (Ireland) Ltd and Ladbrooks (Ireland) (the “Defendants”, Ms Justice Bolger refused to grant a High Court Injunction seeking to dismiss the Plaintiff’s personal injury case regardless of the fact that she had signed a Waiver Agreement.
- State will pay €100,000 to families of healthcare workers who died of Covid (via Irish Times)
- Law Society Update: '80% of measures' to reduce cover costs now in place
- Up to 20 new High Court judges are still required to deal with Covid backlogs, the president of the High Court has said.
- What happens when beneficiaries die before they have a chance to inherit? (via Irish Times)
- A Congolese man has married triplets after they proposed to him simultaneously.
- Fitbit offers refund on Ionic smartwatch, citing burn hazard (via Irish Independent)
- New Report: Average Personal Injuries Assessment Board payout down €10k
- Law, Order and The Batman
- Woman hurt in ‘double rear-ending’ crash awarded almost €30,000 (Via The Irish Times)
- Facebook apologises to Miriam O’Callaghan as it agrees to new reporting tool after scam ads used broadcaster’s image
- Senior barrister (53) charged with murder of dad of four Keith Conlon in Tallaght
- And finally… wisdom tooth (via Irish Legal News)
- ‘I’ve discovered through DNA testing my father isn’t my biological dad’ (via Irish Times)
- ► February (24)
- Driver (22) who drove through red light and knocked down man avoids jail over death
- Man (40) remanded over alleged attempt to collect pension at Carlow post office (via Irish Times)
- Jury acquits former garda of raping his wife at their family home
- Dad takes down town's internet by mistake to get his kids offline
- Austrian investor pays €15m for famed Dundalk hotel
- Employment Case Review: Application to dismiss personal injury claim refused
- Miss Congeniality - A HR Nightmare?
- PIAB to be ‘enhanced and reformed’ through new legislation
- Employment Case Review: Application to dismiss personal injury claim refused
- New bill may push more legal costs on those who take insurers to court
- Boy (12) dies after car he was driving collided with lorry in Co Limerick
- Boy who cut hand on broken glass in council garden awarded €50,000
- British tourist reunited with false teeth he lost in Spain 11 years ago while vomiting into a bin
- Seven medical practices non-compliant with radiation rules, Hiqa finds
- Court upholds finding deceased driver’s estate liable for woman’s trauma
- Modern Morals: ‘My colleague is secretly working from Spain — should I report him to HR?’
- Man who mistakenly assumed he was crossing a one-way road before colliding with car loses €60,000 claim
- Law student left with catastrophic injuries after car driven by banned motorist mounted footpath gets €8m damages
- My husband died. Then his father asked me to pay back a £200,000 house deposit.
- England: Woman tricked into relationship with spycop awarded £230k payout
- Inquest into death of fishermen who drowned heard boat sank ‘extremely quickly’
- Cardi B awarded over £2m in damages in defamation case win
- Collision driver had false Irish passport
- Man says deaths of wife and baby could have been avoided if epilepsy guidelines followed
- ► January (26)
- School building that had serious structural and fire safety defects built in just 20 weeks when usual time was 60, court hears
- Judge fixes hearing for preliminary issue in personal injuries guidelines challenge
- Motorcyclist who hit crowd control barrier in place for community festival settles case
- Girl who fell from ‘Santa train’ settles High Court action
- HSE report finds hundreds of children received ‘risky’ treatment from doctor in south Kerry
- ‘I knew straight away she was dead’ – husband tells of finding his wife lifeless in bed after food poisoning at communion party
- And finally… flushed with success
- Man who slipped in porch of his council home after five pints of Guinness fails to prove local authority ‘in any way responsible’
- Deirdre Morley, who killed her three children, sues HSE, hospital and consultant
- Your personal finance questions – I was mugged so can I make a claim on my home insurance?
- Modern Morals: I broke off my engagement after my fiancé cheated on me. Do I have to return the ring?
- Stag attack on ESB worker will ‘forever haunt’ him as he settles case
- Family of factory worker who died from asbestos illness say others may be unaware of health risks
- ECtHR: ‘Gay cake’ saga cut short as Strasbourg declares application inadmissible
- Ask Allison: ‘I am done with my mother-in-law. How can I get my husband to take my side?’
- Taxpayers lose as insurers keep millions in state funds cut from Covid payouts
- Opinion: It’s time for the insurance industry to honour its promise on lowering premiums
- Insurance chiefs promise Donohoe that premium costs will fall
- Am I liable if my trees fall on a road?
- Man left blind and unable to walk settles case against hospital for €25m
- Opening of email attachment led to HSE cyber attack, report finds
- Fraud offences increase by 72% this year driven by bank scams and card transactions
- High Court: Worker fails to quash hospital’s refusal to let her to work from home
- Unarmed and dangerous
- Northern Ireland to ban smoking in cars with children and sale of vapes to under-18s
- High Court: €33,000 awarded for PTSD injury after plaintiff witnessed murder in service station
- ► December (13)
- ► 2021 (24)
- ► December (18)
- Fisherman who worked over 17 hours a day awarded more than €20,000 compensation after WRC ruling
- Be aware of impersonation
- Owners of crumbling Irish homes ‘disgusted’ by compensation plan
- ‘They said she was the only one, then Vicky Phelan happened’
- Woman who got lost in Ikea warehouse after she was struck by flat-pack awarded €60,000 damages
- Jockey paralysed in horror fall WINS fight for millions in compensation after rival caused pile-up.
- Court of Appeal: Personal injuries award reduced from €155,000 to €83,000 for accident arising from dazzled driver
- Walking from your bed to your desk could count as a commute, according to a German court ruling
- High Court: Worker fails to quash hospital’s refusal to let her to work from home
- €25 million for man left blind and unable to walk after hospital’s lack of action despite parents’ warnings
- €56,000 for boy who had two accidents at creche
- Opinion: It’s time for the insurance industry to honour its promise on lowering premiums
- Hospital apologises for young mother’s ‘completely preventable’ death from sepsis a week after birth of third child
- Boy with cerebral palsy who sued over circumstances of his birth settles case for record €30m
- And finally… pensioned off
- High Court: €33,000 awarded for PTSD injury after plaintiff witnessed murder in service station
- €8m interim settlement for Caitlin (9) as hospital apologises for life-changing injuries during her birth
- TikTok user’s €60,000 injury claim thrown out after court sees video of him dancing to ‘It Wasn’t Me’
- ► November (6)
- No Kill No Fee
- Insurers made huge profits on motorists in lockdown
- I can't believe someone stole €2.3million
- Judge praises courage of parents as teenage girl receives €1m over narcolepsy after receiving swine flu jab
- Golfer who lost part of finger in circular-saw accident at his local club wins €100,000 damages
- A public park has introduced designated zones for drug dealers after several failed bids to ban them altogether.
- ► December (18)
- ► 2016 (32)
- ► July (5)
- ► June (9)
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- ► May (8)
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- ► April (5)
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