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New Hope for Struggling Borrowers
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...
DePuy patients learn metal-on-metal implants should not be on the market
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...
Justice Minister Proposes Reforms for Specialist Family Law Courts
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...
New Concern for DePuy Patients that will last a lifetime
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...
Will the State compensate sufferers of Narcolepsy from Pandemrix swine flu vaccine?
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...
New Proposals to help Borrowers stay in their homes
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...
Patients Suffer when the Cure is worse than the Cause
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...
Health Fears and Legal Time Limits for 1,500 Irish Women after faulty breast implants
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...
DePuy Hip Implant Patients – Don’t Miss Your Date! – 26th August 2012
THERE IS NOW LESS THAN FOUR MONTHS REMAINING for those affected by the DePuy Hip Recall to lodge a claim. As many people will be aware, on the 26th August 2010 DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson, announced a worldwide recall of two of it’s...