by Lacey Solicitors | Apr 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
. After four recent Court of Appeal decisions on the assessment of damages in personal injuries cases where the court on each occasion lowered awards of damages, one might be tempted to think that the court had indeed recalibrated damages in personal injury cases...
by Lacey Solicitors | Apr 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Awards of appeal costs have been made against plaintiff’s whose damages awarded by the High Court were reduced by the Court of Appeal. Appeal In Anthony and Rita Shannon v Debbie O’Sullivan the Court of Appeal significantly reduced High Court...
by Lacey Solicitors | Apr 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
The issue of when a security of costs application should be granted was considered by Mr Justice Barrett in the recent case of Euro Safety and Training Services Limited v FAS [2016] IEHC 161. Section 390 of the Companies Act 1963 provides:- “Where a limited company is...
by Lacey Solicitors | Apr 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
A consultative case stated by Judge Patrick Durcan of Ennis District Court sought clarification from the High Court on whether exemptions that applied to vehicles involved in road maintenance and control applied in the instant case where the owner of the...
by Lacey Solicitors | Apr 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
General Notices: 23rd March 2016 P.I. Direction Practitioners note the recent direction of the President of the High Court that allows personal injury assessment cases that would normally be heard in Cork, Limerick and Sligo to be transferred to Dublin, if both...
by Lacey Solicitors | Apr 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
In Doyle v Lyons and MIBI [2011/2522P] the plaintiff who was injured whilst a passenger in an uninsured car failed to convince the High Court that he did not know that the vehicle was uninsured. The MIBI called evidence from a Garda officer that the first defendant...
