by Coleman Legal LLP | Mar 10, 2021 | Mother and Baby Home Redress
Ms Theresa Hiney Tingal discovered she was illegally adopted, and her birth certificate was falsified at the age of 48. It was through freedom of information requests that Ms. Hiney Tingal finally got a copy of her HSE adoption file. As a result of the discovery, she...
by Coleman Legal LLP | Mar 10, 2021 | Mother and Baby Home Redress
As a result of High Court rulings when at least six illegal adoption cases against St Patrick’s Guild Adoption Society go to trial it will be solely for assessment of damages. These orders were made after Anthony Weldon, the liquidator of St Patrick’s Guild failed to...
by Coleman Legal LLP | Mar 9, 2021 | Sexual Abuse Law
The Board of St John Ambulance has appointed Dr. Geoffrey Shannon as the head of an independent probe into the handling of historical child sex abuse allegations. Dr. Geoffrey Shannon is a leading authority on child law and is the Government’s former Special...
by Coleman Legal LLP | Mar 8, 2021 | Mother and Baby Home Redress
Following the publishing of the report from the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes in January numerous lawsuits have been initiated against the State and the religious orders which ran the homes. The Commission examined 14 mother and baby homes...
by Coleman Legal LLP | Mar 5, 2021 | Sexual Abuse Law
On Tuesday 2nd of March, 2021, the Jesuit Order released a statement identifying Fr. Joseph Marmion SJ who had “abused boys sexually, emotionally and physically” while he taught at Belvedere College Dublin from 1969 until 1978. The decision to identify Fr. Joseph...