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As everyone is aware in February 2013 the Irish Bank Resolution Act 2013 was enacted and a Special Liquidation Order was signed by the Minister for Finance placing IBRC ( a merger of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society) into Special Liquidation. The Special Liquidators of IBRC then had the monumental task of [...]
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03 Feb '16
Conduit/BT, operators of Irelands Emergency Call Answering Service (ECAS) have introduced a new ‘Toilet Break Policy’ which seeks to monitor 999 operators visits to the bathroom. In essence, operators will now have to ask for management permission to use the toilet. That wonderful old Irish euphemism “An bhfuil cead agam dul amach” comes to mind. [...]
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In a case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, judges ruled that a company may read an employee’s messages transmitted on Yahoo Messenger while he was at work. The ruling said the man, an engineer in Romania, had breached company policy and his employer had a right to monitor his [...]
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The Minister for Justice signed a Statutory Instrument on the 18th January 2016 commencing certain provisions of The Children and Family Relationships Act 2015. This Act radically overhauls the existing Guardianship of Infants Act which is the underpinning legislation in bringing applications before the District Court seeking access, custody and guardianship. This legislation [...]
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A short article on Christmas access by Annette Sheehan, FitzGerald Solicitors published in the Journal.ie on Saturday 19th December 2015. http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/separated-parents-what-to-do-with-kids-at-christmas-2489666-Dec2015/
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The break-up of a marriage may have devastating consequences for all parties both emotionally and financially. The Irish Courts have a constitutional obligation to ensure that “proper provision” is made for both spouses and any dependent children. Judges have wide discretion and can make any orders that the Court feels appropriate in order to ensure [...]
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Compliance with data protection regulation has far reaching and profound consequences; from questions of evidential admissibility arising in recent criminal and civil trials to the controversy in respect of the retention of Primary school children’s data; from Edward Snowdon to Cloud computing. In today’s data driven world every organisation, company and individual involved in [...]
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17 Feb '15
Time waits for no man and certainly that is the case for victims of accidents in their endeavours to recover compensation for personal injuries arising from Road Traffic Accidents, Work Accidents and Public Liability Claims.* The Injuries Board has long been touted (mainly by the Injuries Board) as a simple method of dealing [...]
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27 Nov '14
The urgent need for legislation governing periodic payments in personal injury cases was highlighted recently in the High Court in the case of an eight-year-old boy who is suffering brain damage from birth. This case was before the High Court two years ago when an interim payment of €1.4 million was made in anticipation [...]
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The Government announced details of the Symphysiotomy compensation scheme on the 6th November, 2014. Judge Maureen Harding Clarke has been appointed as Independent Assessor to the scheme which was announced on the 1st of July, 2014 for women who underwent surgical symphysiotomy or pubiotomy. Judge Clarke stated that the vast majority of [...]
