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French actor Gerard Depardieu was charged with rape and assault of an actress in her 20s.
Former coach John McClean sentenced to an 8-year prison term for sexually abusing pupils between 1973 and 1990
Former Terenure College teacher admitted sexual abuse to a senior priest when questioned 25 years ago
Sexual Abuse Law
Further Victim of Fr. Joseph Marmion comes forward regarding abuse at Belvedere College
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 Joseph Marmion came following contact in 2019...
Jesuit Order release name of priest who abused students at Belvedere College
Belvedere College School, Dublin, has publicly named a Jesuit Priest, Father Joseph Marmion SJ, “who abused boys sexually emotionally and physically” during his time as a teacher at the School from 1969 until 1978. The decision to name Joseph Marmion came following communication between the...
French actor Gerard Depardieu was charged with rape and assault of an actress in her 20s.
Renowned French actor Gerard Depardieu (72) was charged with rape and assault of an actress in her 20s on Tuesday. The unnamed actress alleged that she was assaulted and raped by Depardieu on two separate occasions in his home in Paris in August 2018, reported by French newspaper Le Parisien and...
Former coach John McClean sentenced to an 8-year prison term for sexually abusing pupils between 1973 and 1990
On Thursday, 18 February 2021, John McClean (76) from Casimir Avenue, Harold’s Cross, Dublin, was sentenced to eight years imprisonment with the final three years suspended, after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting 23 pupils between 1973 and 1990 in Terenure College, as reported by The Irish...
Content Moderators
Former Facebook moderator claims serious injury from explicit content
A former Facebook content moderator employee has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and outsourcing agency CPL Solutions in Ireland.
The Battle Against PTSD
Over the last few years there has been a significant rise in reported cases of ‘content moderators’ being diagnosed with PTSD. As reported by (the verge), this rise has been attributed to daily exposure of violent and disturbing content as part of the job requirement. Exposure to gruesome and...
Facebook agrees 52 million settlement with American content moderators
In the United States, Facebook has agreed, as part of a preliminary settlement filed last Friday in California’s San Mateo Superior Court, to pay $52 million to existing and former content moderators for their platform as compensation for the psychological suffering they endured as a result of the...
Employees file lawsuit against Facebook and its service providers
Facebook operates in several parts of the world including but not limited to Europe, Greece, Texas and Germany. It uses service providers such as CPL Resources and Accenture that provides content moderation services. Content moderators employed by these service providers are suing both the service...
Mother and Baby Homes
Report findings of the condition the victims of the mother and baby homes had endured and State and Church have “heavy responsibility” according to President Michael D. Higgins
The release of the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation in Mother and Baby Homes on Tuesday the 12th January 2021 highlighted the poor practices and conditions of living and treatment that the mothers and babies had received in the mother-and-baby homes between the years of 1922 to...
Vaccine Trials conducted on victims of Mother-and-Baby Homes without consent
On Tuesday morning, the Cabinet is set to approve the findings of the mother-and-baby homes in Ireland by the Commission of Investigation. The report focuses on 14 mother-and-baby homes and county homes which found an estimate of 9000 children had died in these institutions between 1922 until the...
Findings of Mother-and-baby Homes in Ireland over the last 75 years to be released
On Tuesday morning, the Cabinet is set to approve the findings of the mother-and-baby homes in Ireland by the Commission of Investigation. The report focuses on 14 mother-and-baby homes and county homes which found an estimate of 9000 children had died in these institutions between 1922 until the...
Dolphin Trust Scandal
- Kathleen Dineen originally petitioned the High Court to wind up the company, MUT 103 Limited, on 18 December 2020. Kathleen Dineen is an investor in Dolphin Trust via special purposes vehicle company M.U.T. 103 Limited.
- Mr Justice O’Moore heard from both sides this afternoon, Monday 1 March 2021. Ms Dineen’s legal team were asking the Court for an order to wind up the company without further delay. Counsel for M.U.T. 103 Limited asked the Court to adjourn the petition to allow time for the Directors of M.U.T. 103 Limited to make contact with the investors to advise them of their options.
Judgment stood reserved until Wednesday, 10 March 2021 and we will update our clients again thereafter. If you have invested in Dolphin Trust and have yet to receive your promised returns, please contact our legal team for advice or read more.
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