Admitted 2007

Personal Injury Litigation*, Catastrophic Injury, Debt Recovery

Telephone: 071 916 2032

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinemcl

Caroline was appointed Senior associate in Sept 2017 in the Litigation Department of Callan Tansey. She advises on Litigation at all levels to include District Court, Circuit Court and High Court.

Caroline specialises in Personal Injury Litigation* to include Road Traffic Accidents, Catastrophic Injury, Fatal Injury actions, Accidents at work and public liability claims dealing with applications to the Injuries Board ‘PIAB’, applications to the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland ‘MIBI’ and manages a personal injury caseload at District Court, Circuit Court and High Court level.

She also advises on Defamation, Equity Litigation and Debt Collection for both Private and Corporate clients and served her traineeship with Callan Tansey Solicitors after joining the firm in April, 2004. Caroline was appointed as an Associate in 2013. Caroline is a former Secretary of the Sligo Solicitors Bar Association.

Caroline is an External Examiner for Letterkenny Institute of Technology on various Law Modules.

Caroline is a Member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers www.apil.org.uk and the Irish Women Lawyers Association of www.iwla.ie/

Caroline is also a member of the Donegal Women in Business Network.

*In contentious business, a solicitor may not calculate fees or charges as a percentage or proportion of any award or settlement.

CASES OF NOTE

GSOC urges High Court to overturn costs order over ‘one-sided’ investigation

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) wants the High Court to overturn a costs order made against it by a District Court Judge. District Judge Kevin Kilrane had described GSOC’s investigation into a road accident involving a couple and an off-duty Garda as...

Melissa Patterson was just 18 years old when she was hit by a car

“We’ve lost someone so precious.”
In July 2015 Melissa Patterson was just 18 years old when she was hit by a car and killed while out walking on the N60. So far in 2017 12 people have died so far on our roads, seven of those deaths have been pedestrians.

Family hope daughter’s death not in vain

THE family of a Castlebar teenager who died in a road-traffic accident have said that they hope her death will not be in vain

Death Crash Inquest

A PENSIONER has told of the horror moment she caused a road accident which claimed the life of a teenager.

Mayo inquest returns verdict of accidental death

A jury at the inquest into the death of an 18-year-old woman, who died in a traffic collision in 2015, has returned a verdict of accidental death.

‘Dreadful tragedy’ of Melissa’s death recalled at inquest

AN inquest in Castlebar today returned a verdict of accidental death in the case of Melissa Patterson (18), Hollow Grove, Castlebar.

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