Patrick Ward & Co. Solicitors

Sexual abuse case against H.S.E

The Plaintiff was diagnosed with autism and a mild mental handicap at a young age. She was inappropriately placed in a psychiatric hospital for fourteen years and during this time her development regressed. She was deprived of a very significant quality of life due to the lack of appropriate understanding of her condition, inappropriate placement...

G.P awarded €668,000.00 damages

The Plaintiff is a GP who sustained significant injuries. This was as a result of a loose horse landing on the roof of the car which he was driving crushing the roof and trapping his head between the roof and the side pillar of the car. He sustained significant injuries including fractures to his neck...

Settlement of €2.8M reached in catastrophic injuries case

The Plaintiff sustained a serious brain injury as a result of a Road Traffic accident. He was 33 years old at the time. He suffered a severe head injury with frontal brain injury resulting in Organic Personality disorder. He has significant cognitive impairments, is incapable of concentrating for any period of time and suffers from...

Spinal injury victim awarded €750,000.00

The Plaintiff was driving his vehicle when due to the dangerous and defective condition thereof the vehicle was caused to go out of control. The plaintiff was hit by another driver when his vehicle was stationary. He sustained a devastating injury to his spinal cord. He has no power in his lower limbs and no...

Electrocution victim awarded over €5000,000.00

The Plaintiff was an employee of a steel fabrication company. During the construction of a slatted shed the Plaintiff was on a roof when a bar of steel in his hand hit high voltage wires and he was thrown to the ground off the roof. He sustained electrical burns to both of his wrists, his...

Legal precedent set in shipping case

We received instructions from the International Transport Federation in April 2013. Some 27 of their members were owed in excess of $300,000.00 in unpaid wages from their work on board the vessel, The MV Clipper Faith. The ship had been arrested by the Amsterdam Trade Bank and we lodged a caveat on behalf of the...

Garda compensation case

We acted on behalf of a client in a Garda Compensation case in which significant issues of law and fact were determined in the High Court on the 7th October 2013. Our client sustained debilitating psychological injuries following a shooting incident in February 1982 as a consequence of which he developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...

Joseph Daniels / Barry T. Murphy appeal

Joseph Daniels / Barry T. Murphy Appeals – Downpatrick 12th August 2012 The Appeals Body, Judge Tony Hunt (in the Chair), Martin O’Donnell and John Powell met at the Turf Club, the Curragh, Co. Kildare on Monday, 27th August 2012, to consider the appeal of Joseph Daniels and Barry T. Murphy, owner and trainer respectively...

The real article referral

E.J. O’Grady, Trainer / P.F. Mangan, Rider / The Real Article / Application by Denis Egan, Keeper of the Matchbook under the provisions of Rule 27 July 2011 The Referrals Committee Neville O’Byrne (in the Chair), Hugh M. Ferguson and T.L. Crawford met at the Turf Club, The Curragh, Co. Kildare on 25th July 2011...

Favourite for galway hurdle allowed to run following legal submissions

Monday 25 July 2011 Guinness Galway Hurdle favourite The Real Article will be allowed to take his chance in Thursday’s feature race after the Turf Club cancelled an inquiry into the running and riding of the Edward O’Grady-trained gelding at Tipperary on 17 July. The six-year-old finished second behind Captain Cee Bee in the Grade...

W.P Mullins / Ruby Walsh / Henry De Bromhead Appeals

Fairyhouse – 24th April 2011 The Appeals Body (Division Two), N.B. Wachman (in the Chair), Mrs. J.O. Onions and Martin P. O’Donnell met at the Turf Club on 16th May 2011 to consider the appeals of W.P. Mullins, trainer Sir Vincent, Ruby Walsh, rider Sir Vincent and Henry de Bromhead, trainer Jack Bene, against the...

Philip Phenton - "Dunguib" prohibited substance

Punchestown, 29th April, 2009. The Referrals Committee, Dr. Gordon A. Holmes (in the Chair), Mr. P.J.A. O’Connor and Mrs. T.K. Cooper, met in the Stewards Room at Galway Racecourse, Ballybrit, Co. Galway, on Tuesday 28th July, 2009, to consider a report from BHP Laboratories in Limerick that the biological fluid sample taken from “Dunguib” following...

Professional negligence action against solicitors

This action was brought by our Firm on behalf of two businessmen, Kevin Gormley and Conal Davey, in respect of a property that was purchased for €1.6 million in 2006. Kevin Gormley and Conal Davey acquired the leasehold interest in a property at 4 Leeson Lane, Leeson Street, Dublin 2, in 2006 in a €1.6...

APUM vs HSE and another high court

We represented the next of kin of an autistic woman in seeking (a) a declaration that the Plaintiff’s constitutional rights had been infringed and (b) damages for personal injury. The Plaintiff had been admitted as a voluntary patient to a psychiatric hospital. She had a number of conditions including autism, behavioural disorders and mild intellectual...

Professional fees recovery case

This claim, brought by the firm on behalf of Campion Property Consultants Limited, involved litigation over the recovery of professional fees due to the plaintiff for Auctioneering and other services provided to the Defendant in the sale of a commercial property. The case required the testimony of witnesses to fact as well as expert witnesses...

Polish national fatal injury claim

Our firm acted on behalf of the widow and family of a Polish Ship Officer fatally injured in an accident onboard a shipping vessel in Dublin Port. This High Court case involved the coordination of maritime accident experts, shipping inspectors, independent witnesses, translators and actuarial experts to establish liability and to quantify the claim against...

Family law - Annulment

Patrick Ward& Co recently represented a client in an application for an Annulment of marriage. The application was brought by the husband in circumstances where the wife lacked the capacity to enter into and sustain a normal marital relationship by reason of her state of mind and mental condition. The marriage had not been...

Redress board claims

We act for a large number of members of the Deaf Community in cases before the Residential Institutions Redress Board, a body set up by the Government to compensate victims of abuse in State Institutions. We have contributed to “Hands On”, a television programme of interest to the Deaf Community which is screened weekly on...

Sports law

In another recent Turf Club Appeal heard on the 26th January 2009, Patrick Wardrepresented horse trainer, Edward O’Grady, in relation to an appeal lodged by Mr. Oliver McKiernan (represented by Kevin Smith), trainer of “Whatuthink” against the decision of the Leopardstown local stewards confirming that Mr. O’Grady’s horse “Catch Me” in the race in...

Bus incident - Fatal injury

The claim was brought on behalf of the Widow of a Dublin Bus Driver who sustained fatal injuries following an accident at work. It settled recently in the High Court for €475,000.00. The settlement was approved by Mr. Justice Butler. The accident arose from a dangerous defect present in the Bus which the deceased was...

Sports law - Turf appeal

An Appeal was lodged with the Turf Club following the running of the Irish One Thousand Guineas at the Curragh in May. The acting Stewards had found that the second placed horse “Tuscan Evening” had caused interference to the horse placed fourth “Caribbean Sunset” ridden by Ryan Moore and trained by Mr. Dermot Weld. The...

Constitutional law - Tribunals of inquiry

An application was brought by way of Judicial Review to the High Court seeking to challenge various orders of the Mahon Planning Tribunal relating to the former Taoiseach Mr. Bertie Ahern TD. These related to: A claim of Legal Professional Privilege. A claim relating to Parliamentary Privilege as provided in Article 15(13) of the Constitution...

Brain injury

This case recently settled at Hearing of a young man who suffered traumatic brain injuries following a road traffic accident. The High Court approved a settlement of €3m together with costs of the Proceedings. Such settlement provided for the future care of the Plaintiff with the Peter Bradley Foundation, an association which specialises in the...

Judicial review injuction - High court

We were consulted on behalf of the Ward Union Hunt Club, established more than 150 years ago, who obtain an annual licence under the 1976 Wildlife Act from the Minister of the Environment. Just before Christmas last the Minister issued a restricted licence. The licence issued on the 19th December 2007 and contained two conditions...

Shipping case

Shipping Law / Employment: In Re: MV Merchant Brilliant The firm was consulted by the International Transport Federation. The matter at issue concerned payment of wages to the crew, some of whom had not been paid for several months and the remainder of whom were being paid at rates considerably below the set minimum rates. An...

Injuction

Commercial Law Court – Our firm acted on behalf of Whelan Frozen Foods Limited in relation to their business relationship with Dunnes Stores and the purported termination by Dunnes Stores of the warehousing and logistic service provided by Whelans over a long number of years. The Plaintiff’s application for an interlocutory injunction restraining Dunnes Stores...

Abestos exposure

An action brought by a worker who claimed that he was suffering from mesothelioma, contracted while working with asbestos and asbestos-related materials over 20 years ago, was settled in the High Court recently, for a sum believed to be in the region of £250,000. The case, which was being heard by Mr. Justice Patrick Smith...

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