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• Lavelle Partners successfully settled a matter on behalf of a man who was struck by a motor vehicle while out on a run

  • PostedAugust 24, 2022
  

  The Plaintiff was lawfully running on a public footpath adjacent to a highway when a motorist collided with him. The matter was settled in advance of the trial.

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• Lavelle Partners successfully settled a matter on behalf of the parents of a baby that died at birth as a result of hospital negligence

  • PostedAugust 24, 2022
  

  In this case, the mother’s pregnancy was complicated by rhesus iso-immunisation due to anti-Kell antibodies which resulted in foetal anaemia. She required intrauterine blood transfusions which were carried out at...

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• EU Directive changes to examinerships signed into law

  • PostedAugust 18, 2022
  

  On the 29th July 2022, the European Union (Preventive Restructuring) Regulations 2022 (the ‘Regulations’) were signed into law by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The amendments to the...

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• The Sick Leave Act 2022

  • PostedAugust 17, 2022
  

  The Sick Leave Act 2022 (the “Act”) provides Ireland’s first statutory sick pay scheme for employees was signed into law on 20th July 2022. Before the Act was signed into...

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• Post-pandemic insolvencies coming to the surface

  • PostedJuly 28, 2022
  

  In January 2021, I wrote about the possibility of increased insolvencies across Irish businesses when the Government’s covid-related subsidies cease. Read the piece here. I spoke on This Week on...

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• The Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Act 2022

  • PostedJuly 27, 2022
  

  The Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Act 2022 (the “Act”) was signed into law by the President on the 20th of July 2022. The main points Under the Act; Employers...

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