A PTSD compensation award of €87,000 has been approved for a woman who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to seeing a partly decapitated body of a motorist when she arrived at the scene of...
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Tree Stump Accident leads to €55,000 Injury Compensation Award for Boy
A boy who cut his knee - when he was attending an Art Camp in Dundrum, Dublin - during a fall on a tree stump at a has had a compensation settlement of €55,000 approved in the High Court. Just ten years old...
Trial of Man for Sexual Assault of Four Girls at Creche Begins
A 29-year-old male is currently on trial after being accused of the sexual assault of four girls at the creché where he was working. Claims have been made that the man in question, from February 2015 to...
Catholic Church Braced for Compensation Claims in Relation to Illegal Adoption Cases
At the High Court in Belfast a compensation case has been submitted in relation to illegal Catholic Church adoptions, arranged by the Catholic Church of children born in the Republic of Ireland, the first of...
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Specsavers Ordered to Pay Former Staff Member €12,000 Wrongful Sacking Compensation
The Letterkenny Specsavers branch has been directed to pay €12,000 wrongful dismissal compensation by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to a Muslim woman who was sacked from her job the day after the...
Woman from Belfast ‘Abused’ due to her Accent Awarded €1,118 Compensation
A workplace industrial tribunal in Northern Ireland has awarded compensation to a woman after she was made fun of due to her west Belfast accent along with being harassed for being female. The workplace...
Mother and Son Kept Apart for 51 years Sue Adoption Agency for Wrongful Separation Compensation
A mother who claims her son had been illegally adopted, has said she hoped the settlement in her wrongful separation compensation legal action would encourage others to act, and that the authorities would...
Krystle Nightclub Bouncer Assault Compensation of €50,000 Awarded to Two Brothers
Two brothers who were assualted and beaten up by security staff outside Krystle Nightclub in Dublin have been awarded more than €50,000 personal injury compensation. Judge Sarah Berkeley who described the...
€256k PTSD Awarded to Chinese Woman Knocked Down by Car in Dublin
An accountancy student has been awarded more than €250,000 in personal injury compensation damages after a High Court judge found she experienced post-traumatic stress disorder after being struck by a car in...
Bus Passenger Awarded €25k for Injuries Sustained in Sudden Braking Incident
A bus passenger who was injured after a bus she was travelling was involved in a crash has been awarded €25,000 in the Circuit Civil Court. The accident occurred when a man ran onto a road in front of a bus...
€37,500 Hot Chocolate Burn Compensation Awarded to 10-Year-Old Girl
€37,500 in damages has been awarded to a Wexford girl, aged 10, who was scaled by hot chocolate in a New Ross-based takeaway in 2014. Kaya Caulfield, taking the burns injury compensation action through her...
Wrongful Birth Compensation of €1.8m Awarded Following Incorrect Foetus Test
The first ever wrongful birth case in Ireland has been settled for an interim payment of €1.8m after a mother, who is a carrier of a rare genetic condition, claimed she was deprived of her right to travel...
Donegal Widow Awarded Compensation for Sea Death of Husband and Son in 1981
Winifred Byrne, a Donegal widow, has finally been awarded €245,570 in lost at sea compensation. Ms Byrne secured Ombudsman’s support for State compensation in 2009 after she was excluded from a scheme over...
Woodwork Student (15) Awarded €42,500 School Injury Compensation
A 15 year old boy has been awarded €42,500 School Injury Compensation after cutting his finger on a band saw during a woodwork class. Robin Reinplu, The Drive, Meadowvale, Arklow, filed the personal injury...
Van Driver Awarded €116,000 after being Rear-Ended in Traffic
A driver who suffered a serious back injury after being rear-ended while stopped in traffic in Castlemartyr, Co Cork has been awarded over €116,000 in compensation. His vehicle was struck from behind by a...
Thumb Dislocation Compensation of €15,000 award to Wexford-based Garda
Wexford-based garda Awarded €15,000 in Thumb Dislocation Compensation following sustaining injuries while attending to a house call in relation to a party in Wexford town. Garda Barry Hennessy told the court...