Legal News (Litigation & Dispute Resolution)

We outline Cronin v Stevenson [2016] IECA 186 (Court of Appeal, Edwards J, 22 June 2016), a successful appeal against a High Court award for damages in a personal injuries action.

David Phelan discusses the media law context around a recent Circuit Court award of damages for online defamation.

Clinical negligence actions and the pre-action protocol have now been put on a statutory footing in the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015 (LSR Act). Jenny Foley offers an overview of this welcome change for both plaintiff and defence lawyers instructed in clinical negligence actions.

A recent decision the Court of Appeal addressed the question of when the Statute of Limitations begins to run for claims based in tort.

Matthew Austin reports on a recent Supreme Court decision clarifying the position of creditors seeking to prove a contractual debt in summary judgment proceedings.

Oscar Wilde defined an expert as merely ‘an ordinary man away from home giving advice’. While the use of the term ‘expert’ remains as unfettered now as it did then, recent times have seen the role of an expert in litigation proceedings being placed under much more scrutiny, explains Stephen McGuinness.