About once a week,we meet someone in the office or outside of the office who has been a victim of crime or knows someone who was a victim of crime and does not know about the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal. Frankly, before we began legal practice we did not know about this either. It has a low national …
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Occupiers Liability Act 1995 The above Act places an obligation on the occupier of the premises in terms of a duty owed to the visitor, which can be seen below. An occupier of premises owes a duty of care (“the common duty of care”) towards a visitor thereto except in so far as the occupier …
Sometimes after an accident has occurred, it is not always easy to establish who was at fault for the accident. An injured person may have question concerning the events, such as, ‘Am I at fault at all or in some way partly to blame ?. An injured person who brings a case against the other …
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Recently, a conference took place where it was proposed, a ‘Duty of Candour’ should exist in Ireland in relation to health care provision. This duty, if implemented, would benefit patients, doctors, health care professionals by creating a more open, transparent system which means, in practice, if an accident happened while under medical care, this accident …
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