Mother and baby home redress scheme to go to Cabinet next week
Scheme will open next year with a projected cost of some €800 million. View Article Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Social Media Will – Protecting your Social Media Legacy
In this social media age you should leave clear instructions about what should happen to your social media accounts after your death. If you think about the number of photographs alone that are stored on line this will give you some idea of the importance of ensuring, if you so wish, that a partner, family …
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V.W. Emissions Scandal : More Developments in Europe
EU Consumer Commissioner Didier Reynders recently criticised the German carmaker’s unwillingness to act across the continent and said Volkswagen should set a compensation rule for all EU customers based on the average they had already awarded in previous cases. “The Commission and EU consumer authorities [are] calling upon Volkswagen to compensate all EU consumers, also …
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Mother & Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Access Widened
In a welcome development on the Mother & Baby Homes scandal the Minister for Children has now advised that whereas the Redress Scheme will take account of the recommendations of the Commission of Investigations it will not be limited to them. Women who spent less than six months in the homes and those resident after …
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Sexual Harassment in the U.K. and U.S. Armed Forces
United Kingdom : Following on from a 2015 Sexual Harassment Survey, the British army repeated the survey in 2018 to assess improvements in army culture and behaviour. Although the results showed that there had been an improvement in behaviours since the 2015 survey, it also reported that unwanted sexualised behaviours remain a common experience for …
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Auto Credit Agreements – right to revoke agreement and return your vehicle
European Court of Justice [ the “ECJ” ] rulings previously established that a consumer’s right to withdraw from a credit agreement is only limited to the 14 days following conclusion of the agreement if the consumers were given “clear and concise” information on when and how they could withdraw, and that the applicability of the …
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The Irish State – Investigations, Reports and Redress Schemes – Book Review
“Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered ‘promiscuous’, a burden to their families or the state, those who had been sexually abused or raised in the care of the Church and State, and unmarried mothers. These girls and women were subjected to forced labour as …
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Will this be Opportunity Lost 2.0?
State must ‘learn from mistakes’ of past redress schemes. Click the link to view article on The Journal
Retirement and Age Discrimination
The Workplace Relations Commission [ “WRC” ] in a recent 2021 decision has once again held that the enforceability of compulsory retirement clauses in contracts of employment and the concept of employees retiring at 65 or indeed any other age is now fast becoming a thing of the past. In 2020 the WRC determined that …
State planning to fight legal claims by survivors of mother and baby homes
State planning to fight legal claims by survivors of mother and baby homes : Irish Independent: Shane Phelan [ March 12 -2021 ] Correspondence shows State plans to argue survivors’ claims fall outside the statute of limitations The State is planning to fight legal claims being taken by survivors of mother and baby homes, the …
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