Legal Advice Ireland

Workplace Accidents

Injuries at work compensation claims are often a delicate issue because the employee usually wishes to remain working for the employer and does not want to damage working relationships.

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Personal Injuries

One of the most frequently asked questions relating to personal injury claims in Ireland is “Do I have a worthwhile personal injury claim?”

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Medical Negligence

Despite the best efforts of an under-resourced Irish Health Service, patients do sometimes suffer avoidable injuries due to medical negligence in Ireland.

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Latest News

25Mar

More Time Needed as Creche Assault Case is Adjourned Until June

Additional time to continue deliberations on a number of outstanding charges in a creche assault case has been requested by the jury in a case where a childcare worker is accused of sexually assaulting four girls in a Leinster crèche. Last Monday the jury in the case was unable to come to a number of...

19Mar

School Camp Compensation of €55,000 Awarded to Boy who Cut Knee on Tree Stump

At the High Court a child injury compensation action has been settled for €55,000 for a boy who cut his knee when he fell on a tree stump at a mid-term camp. The accident in question occurred what Diarmuid O’Connor was just 10 years of age. He was attending the mid-term camp during the break...

26Feb

Creche Sexual Assault Trial for 29-Year-Old Man Begins

A childcare employee accused of sexually assaulting four girls in a creche was concerned about children sitting on his knee as he felt it made him “vulnerable to complaints”, his trial has heard. It is alleged that the man, on dates between February 2015 and December 2016, assault the group of girls 23 times. The...

1Feb

Compensation Claims Submitted in Relation to 1960s Catholic Church Adoptions in Belfast

At the High Court in Belfast the first of what is predicted to be a number of compensation claims in relation to illegal adoptions arranged by the Catholic Church of children born in the Republic of Ireland, has been submitted. At present there are 148 believed to have been impacted in adoption incidents like this,...

15Jan

Cinema Accident Compensation of €40,000 for Schoolgirl

At the Circuit Civil Court Tori McDermott Ellis, an eight-year-old schoolgirl from Loughlinstown, has been awarded €40,000 cinema accident compensation in relation to a fall at a Dún Laoghaire cinema in which she dislocated her knee. Ms McDermott Ellis was represented in court by Barrister Siobhán Gaffney. Gaffney informed the Circuit Civil Court that Tori ...

15Jan

Girl (16) settles for €70,000 after fall on ‘potholed’ lane near home

At the High Court today, a young girl settled her personal injury compensation action for €70,000 in relation to an accident when she chipped her teeth and sustained cuts to her face when, she claims, she allegedly fell on a pothole and “patched” laneway near her home. The girl in question, Kristen Liddy, took the...