News & Insights

• Lavelle Partners successfully settled a matter on behalf of the parents of child that developed Erb’s palsy due to substandard care during his delivery

  • PostedAugust 24, 2022
  

  During the course of the child’s delivery, there was a failure to abandon vaginal delivery in favour of emergency Caesarean section delivery when after 3 pulls of a correctly applied...

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• Lavelle Partners secured a significant settlement for a Plaintiff whose GP failed to diagnose a ruptured Achilles Tendon

  • PostedAugust 24, 2022
  

  The Plaintiff presented to his GP complaining of pain in his right calf and heel and swelling of his ankle. The plaintiff was referred to Connolly Hospital for X-ray examination...

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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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