An epileptic solicitor has been awarded €30,000 from the legal service provider she worked for in relation to its refusal to permit her to work from home. The woman had made six unsuccessful requests to work from home in total with her employer during the time period between March 2015 and January 2017. She made...

An industrial tribunal has awarded compensation to a woman who was mocked because of her west Belfast accent and also harassed for being female. The incident occurred at the Four Winds bar in Castlereagh where Caroline Curran was working as an assistant manager. She told the tribunal that she was made fun of and verbally...

A legal hearing has been adjourned at the High Court until November following the filing of several thalidomide compensation claims. Producers of the German drug Grünenthal GmbHT, which was introduced t the market as a sedative in Germany in 1957, are facing 26 compesation cases which have been brought brought against them and their Irish...

The Minister for Finance Pascal Donohoe has approved paying €1.16m back injury compensation to a garda and former captain of the Tipperary county hurling team Aidan Flanagan for injuries he sustained when attacked during an arrest. This follows the earlier decision by Mr Justice Bernard Barton to award the 44-year-old Garda part compensation of  €175,000...