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New Year’s Resolutions – Review Your Family Circumstance
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...
PIP Breast Implant Recall
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?...
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...