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Multi-Party Action

Our legal team at Coleman Legal has diverse experience due to their involvement with high-profile cases in Ireland which include

MICA Block Scandal, Defective Block Scandal in Ireland, PIP Implant Recall, Psycheatric Illness & Misdiagnosis Claim (CAMHS), Scouting Ireland Sexual Abuse, Social Media Moderator, Larium Case, Mother and Baby Homes, and the recent Dolphin Trust Insolvency Case.

Coleman Legal is highly experienced in supporting clients related to multi-party or group action claim.

What is a Multi-Party or Group Action?

In recent years there has been a marked increase in the number and range of multi-party litigation in Ireland. Topical examples include claims relating to army deafness, contaminated blood products, and tobacco-related illnesses.

Instructing a solicitor to take action as an individual against a large business can be daunting, and it is not without serious financial risk. However, if a number of potential litigants band together, sharing evidence and financial risk to form a group represented by just one firm of solicitors, and take legal action as a group, then the outcome can be more satisfactory than taking individual action and is likely to be settled at an early stage with an offer of payment of damages.

This type of legal action has a number of different names including ‘class action, ‘multi-party action’, ‘representative action’, or ‘group litigation’

The ‘Test Case’

In Ireland, the preferred approach to multi-party actions is the ‘test case’. Where several separate claims arising out of the same circumstances are pending against a defendant or defendants, the first case to be litigated becomes the benchmark by which the remaining cases are resolved, this is referred to as the ‘test case’.

The ‘test case’ is representative and allows a judge to hear the case of a single claimant which is effectively a generic case representing all of the other potential claimants in the same class. The effect of this is to save the courts considerable time as a Judge does not have to hear scores of individual cases.

To be valid as a class action or a multiparty action the claimants must take legal action together based on the same or a similar event causing similar injuries against the same potential defendant.

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Multi-Part Action

Our Proven

Track Record

At Coleman Legal our team have a great deal of experience with rights based cases, including some of Ireland’s more recent topical multi-party actions, such as: We are currently representing clients in relation to

MICA Defective block scandal

Dolphin Trust scandal

Lariam Mefloquine side-effect claim

PIP Breast implant recall

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Multi-Part Action

Our Proven

Track Record

At Coleman Legal our team have a great deal of experience with rights based cases, including some of Ireland’s more recent topical multi-party actions, such as: We are currently representing clients in relation to

Dolphin Trust Insolvency

Scouting Ireland Sexual Abuse scandal

Lariam Mefloquine side-effect claim

Defective Block Scandal

Our areas of work include

Multi-Party actions arise as a result of a wide variety of circumstances including, but not limited to:

Transport accidents involving trains, airplanes, buses, ferries, and cruise liners
Incidents of food poisoning and legionnaires disease
Institutional child abuse
Institutional elder abuse
Defective consumer products
Defective bio-medical devices
Work-related injuries due to toxic chemical exposure
Defective pharmaceutical products
Financial Mis-selling
Environmental accidents including oil spills, water pollution, and atmospheric pollution
Inadequate personal services including health care and incompetent surgeons
Travel and package holiday misrepresentation and personal injury
Occupational injuries affecting a sector of employees
Fraud in the financial services sector including pensions, mortgages, insurance, and investments