The Impact of the New Personal Injuries Guidelines

The new Personal Injuries Guidelines commenced on April 24 2021.  Published by the Judicial Council, they set new guideline levels for personal injury compensation in Ireland. The objective was to bring greater consistency across personal injuries awards and to...

Making a Personal Injury Claim: What You Need To Know

What does Personal Injury* Mean? Personal Injury is a legal term for an injury to the body, mind or emotions, as opposed to an injury to property. The term personal injury also incorporates medical and dental accidents (which lead to numerous medical negligence cases...

Could COVID-19 drive important changes in the Irish Court System?

The COVID-19 crisis has been massively disruptive to court sittings as it has to many other essential activities. High Court personal injuries sittings have been suspended since mid-March. Some sittings have taken place in criminal cases, family law cases and other...

Leading physio points to fresh approach for injury recovery

Returning to play sport after injury should be based more on criteria and less on time, leading physiotherapist Liam Moffatt will tell a sports medical and legal conference in Roscommon today. Moffatt has had a long-time involvement with the Mayo senior football team...

Recent Changes in Personal Injuries Litigation

The PIAB (Amendment) Act 2019 which came into force on 2rd April, 2019 introduced new rules in relation to PIAB most crucially there is an increased emphasis on parties obligations to comply with PIAB’s procedures and provides that a Court may penalise either party on...