Maintenance, Access and Guardianship
Friday, 05 October 2012
Download Maintenance Access Guardianship Notes Maintenance Who is maintenance payable for? There is a legal responsibility in Ireland on both spouses to maintain each other and on parents to maintain their children in accordance with their means. Is there a definition for the word child? Both parents have a responsibility to support their children financially.
- Published in Separation, Divorce & Relationship Issues
Legal Update – DePuy Hips , Succession & Propety Tax
Friday, 05 October 2012
Tipp FM Legal Slot – 28th February 2012 John M. Lynch February 2012 Q&A Review [soundcloud id=’167085514′] Download Q & A Review Notes I am undecided about whether I am going to pay the household charge as there are a lot of different views on it, will I be billed for it and if
- Published in Medical Negligence, Property Services
Legal News Brief – Negligence & Squatters Title
Friday, 05 October 2012
Tipp FM Legal Slot – 21st February 2012 John M. Lynch Legal News Brief [soundcloud id=’167085696′] John and Patricia Walsh v. Tipperary SR County Council Involved what turned out to be a right of way dispute. Was confirmed by the local authority as a public road. PPl had bought the land a number
DePuy ASR Hip Implant & PIP Breast Implant Recall Updates
Friday, 05 October 2012
Tipp FM Legal Slot – 14th February 2012 John M. Lynch on DePuy ASR Hip Implant & PIP Breast Implant Recall Updates [soundcloud id=’167085703′] Download DePuy/PIP/Debt Update Notes DePuy Update Introduction We represent a considerable number of clients who have been directly affected by the DePuy hip recall. We have a broad spectrum
- Published in Medical Negligence
New Year’s Resolution – Statute of Limitation
Friday, 05 October 2012
Tipp FM Legal Slot – 31st January 2012 John M. Lynch on Statute of Limitation [soundcloud id=’167085848′] Download New Year Resolution-Statute of Limitation Notes What is the Statute of Limitations? The Statute of Limitations is the length of time a person has to make a claim following an incident that gives rise to
- Published in Medical Negligence, Personal Injury & Litigation
New Year’s Resolutions – Review Your Family Circumstance
Friday, 05 October 2012
Tipp FM Legal Slot – 17th January 2012 [mp3j track=”New Year’s Resolutions – Review Your Family Circumstance@New_Years_Resolutions.mp3″ autoplay=”n” caption=”John M. Lynch”] Download New Year Resolution Notes New Year’s Resolutions – Review your Family Circumstance During the post-holiday period; Christmas and summer, separations and family law matters see an increase. Before Christmas I advised separated and divorced
- Published in Separation, Divorce & Relationship Issues
PIP Breast Implant Recall
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Tipp FM Legal Slot – 10th January 2012 John M. Lynch on PIP Breast Implant Recall [soundcloud id=’167086871′] Download PIP Breast Implant Recall Notes How many women worldwide and in Ireland were implanted with the defective PIP breast implants? Up to 1,500 Irish women who received defective breast implants may face alarming health
- Published in Medical Negligence
New Hope for Struggling Borrowers
Saturday, 29 September 2012
Modern insolvency law strikes a balance between the interests of creditors and debtors whereas our current insolvency laws favour only creditors. Recently, the government announced that struggling homeowners will be given the chance to write down their debt on their mortgages by spreading it over a six year period. The deals will be dealt with
- Published in Bankruptcy & Insolvency
DePuy patients learn metal-on-metal implants should not be on the market
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Three thousand two hundred and eighty two (3,282) Irish patients were fitted with defective DePuy ASR hip implants. Experts have found “unequivocal evidence” of high failure rates and are calling for metal-on-metal hip implants to be banned. The research, published in the world’s leading medical journal, The Lancet, was based on the National Joint Registry of England
- Published in Medical Negligence
Justice Minister Proposes Reforms for Specialist Family Law Courts
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
A major shakeup of the legal system has been drawn up by Justice Minister Alan Shatter and agreed by the Cabinet. As part of this system a new Family Court structure is proposed. The initiatives accepted by the Government will require the holding of a Constitutional Referendum, which means the physical structure of the courts
- Published in Separation, Divorce & Relationship Issues
New Concern for DePuy Patients that will last a lifetime
Friday, 21 September 2012
DePuy patients will need annual blood checks for metal ions for the rest of their lives following an investigation by the British Medical Journal and BBC Newsnight in recent days. The report outlines that metal on metal hip implant patients will need annual blood tests due to the issue of metal particles dislodging from the
- Published in Medical Negligence
Will the State compensate sufferers of Narcolepsy from Pandemrix swine flu vaccine?
Thursday, 20 September 2012
A swine flu vaccine called Pandemrix has been suspected of causing narcolepsy. Pandemrix was supplied to 30 million people in the European Union as a vaccine against the H1N1 version of swine flu. On the 24th of August Finland suspended its national vaccination programme after doctors reported cases of suspected narcolepsy after patients had been given Pandemrix. Sweden,
- Published in Medical Negligence
New Proposals to help Borrowers stay in their homes
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
In a recent blog I discussed proposals under the Personal Insolvency Bill to assist people who are struggling with their mortgages. This week my blog will discuss suggested changes to the Bill and recommendations submitted by the Inter-Departmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears in October 2011. Suggested changes to the Bill Since the unveiling of the Personal
- Published in Bankruptcy & Insolvency
Patients Suffer when the Cure is worse than the Cause
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
In the last week narcolepsy and the swine flu vaccine has been very topical, but you may be wondering what it is all about. In August 2010 the European Medicines Agency began to investigate a possible link between the swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy, following an increased number of reported cases of narcolepsy among children
- Published in Medical Negligence
Health Fears and Legal Time Limits for 1,500 Irish Women after faulty breast implants
Monday, 17 September 2012
It is believed that up to 1,500 Irish women who received defective breast implants may face alarming health risks. The defective implants were produced by French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP). Over 300,000 women worldwide received the PIP implants before the company ceased business in 2010. Legal Issues The PIP breast implants were recalled in
- Published in Medical Negligence
