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The Injuries Board under assessed my case by €311,736.26
The Claims Board has issued a call for a “realistic review of the 2004 Book of Quantum” following a successful case before The High Court. We represented a 47-year-old man who sustained an accident at work in County Wexford. The man was awarded €38,263.73 by the Injuries Board to compensate him for general damages, pain […]
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Book of Quantum review promised
Conor O’Brien, chief executive of the Injuries Board finally promises a review of the 2004 Book of Quantum! Figures published in the Board’s 2015 Annual Overview show that nearly 34,000 new personal injury claims were submitted to theInjuries Board in 2015, representing a six per cent increase in new claims compared to 2014. Conor O’Brien, […]
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Case Study: Girl (5) awarded €55k after she fell and struck her head against wall in creche
A five-year-old girl, who will be scarred for life after she struck her head against a wall in a creche, was today awarded €55,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court. Barrister Robert Crowley told the court that Ruth Reilly had been left unattended at Giraffe Childcare Creche, Athlumney Wood, Johnstown, Navan, Co Meath, in October […]
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End of Compo Culture
A number of personal injury awards by the High Court have been halved by the Court of Appeal, with some criticism of the approach adopted by the original judges.
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Teen awarded €25,000 over plastic in ice cream
A 15-YEAR-old student, who developed a food aversion after chewing on plastic shards while eating ice cream, has been awarded €25,000 damages. The court heard that in November 2013, Jordan Dwyer and her mother Tara Dwyer bought a cardboard tub of Carte D’Or ice cream at the café section of Applegreen Filling Station on the […]
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Employee awarded €60,000 in compensation as a result of bullying and harassment in her workplace.
Damages were awarded not just on view of injuries sustained from treatment from another employee, but of the overall view which Management had of the plaintiff, where she was branded a “troublemaker“. An employee claimed that they were subject to unacceptable treatment by their Line Manager and that shortly afterwards she was systematically bullied and […]
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Dunnes to pay €23k for slip on potato wedge
A housewife who injured her back and wrist when she slipped and fell on a potato wedge in a Dunnes Stores has been awarded €22,900 in damages. Anna Manning (60) told the Circuit Civil Court that she was in Dunnes Stores in The Mill Centre, Clondalkin, Dublin, in November 2011 when she slipped on something […]
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Flight Delay Compensation
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THE LIABILITY IN TORT OF MINORS AND THE LIABILITY OF PARENTS FOR DAMAGE CAUSED BY MINORS IN IRELAND
SECTION 1: THE PRESENT LAW THE LAW IN THIS JURISDICTION (I) Liability of a Minor for his Wrongful Acts (a) General Liability of a Minor in Tort The law of torts is a wide area encompassing several specific branches of liability. Some torts, (e.g. a breach of the rule in Rylands v Fletcher or the obligation imposed […]
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