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Ambulance Chasing: a corporal work of mercy?

There is need for a new charity to be established in Ireland. It will seek out people suffering personal injury. It will advise that the injured person (“the victimâ€?) should immediately consult a solicitor to determine whether there is a cause of action arising from the incident in which the victim was injured.

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Back Injury

The Minister did make specific provision by regulation for the duties of employers to avoid injury to employees in the lifting of weights and loads.

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A Centre of Excellence

The phrase is a stroke of dubious, comparative advertising genius and essentially, only a business consultant’s faddish phrase. After all, in what field do we establish a “Centre of Mediocrity��?? Or a “Centre of the Shoddy��??

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Money, Money, Money

It is a principle of Irish (and UK) law that the purpose of the award of compensation by the courts is to, insofar as money can, place the injured party in the same position as if he/she had not been injured.

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The Return of Whaling

I think I was too quick to venture an opinion on the Seroxat scandal.

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Whales cannot be swallowed

The medical profession has long known that it is cheaper to kill than to maim.

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Personal Injury: Case History – Downes v G. O’Doherty & Sons Ltd.

While the Plaintiff was employed by the Defendant as a labourer, he lifted a bundle of timber onto his shoulder and suffered severe pain in his lower back. He was taken, in pain, to hospital where he remained for two weeks. He was diagnosed as having a slipped disc and eventually he had an operation which improved matters. He reached a condition in which he was compelled to discontinue working for the Defendant. He was unable to sit in a […]

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Personal Injury: Case History – O’Donovan v John Hornibrook Ltd.

The Plaintiff, aged 42, was a felt roofer working for the Defendant. He was burned near the elbow when some hot bitumen spilled on his arm. He was taken to hospital in severe pain. He was treated but eventually had to re-attend and was admitted for five weeks. The arm took a long time to heal.  

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Personal Injury: Case History – Luttrell v Gouldings Fertilisers (Cork) Ltd.

The Plaintiff was a 57 year old labourer. He was engaged in his employment for the Defendant when he plunged his foot into sulphuric acid. The acid was in a pit. All of the bottom third of his leg went into the acid. He required skin grafts. The site of the graft was left with a scar. It got numb in cold weather and the leg got tired after a day’s work.

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Personal Injury: Case History – Conway v Burlington Industries (Ireland) Ltd.

The Plaintiff was employed in the Defendant’s factory. There was a very large propane gas explosion and the Plaintiff was burned and his back was injured. His lip was perforated and he experienced a great deal of pain. He developed a phobia about fire.

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