Legal News (Litigation & Dispute Resolution)

A long-awaited Government report on reform to Ireland’s defamation laws is being put to Cabinet by the Minister for Justice, according to recent media reports. 

Section 14 of the Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004 obliges a plaintiff, defendant or third party in a personal injuries action, who is providing written evidence, to swear an affidavit of verification in relation to a pleading or further information.

In a recent article we discussed adjudication in the context of the Construction Contracts Act 2013.

Joe O’Malley tells the astonishing story of the Afghan Female Judges; their settlement in Ireland and how the legal community here responded to a humanitarian crisis. This article first appeared in the Winter Edition of the Parchment, the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association Magazine.

The Court of Appeal overturned the decision made by the High Court in Warren Harford v Electricity Supply Board [2020] IEHC 752 in which the High Court had made an award of €83,000 in damages for nervous shock.