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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...
Former teacher and 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...
Former Terenure College teacher admitted sexual abuse to a senior priest when questioned 25 years ago
A former teacher and rugby coach was sentenced for 27 counts of indecent assault to 23 schoolboys aged between 12 and 17 at Terenure College in...
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...
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...
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...
Sexual Abuse Law
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 teacher and 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...
Former Terenure College teacher admitted sexual abuse to a senior priest when questioned 25 years ago
A former teacher and rugby coach was sentenced for 27 counts of indecent assault to 23 schoolboys aged between 12 and 17 at Terenure College in South Dublin between 1973 to 1990, as reported by the Independent. From 1966 to 1996, Mr John McClean (76) of Casimir Avenue, Harold’s Cross, Dublin,...
Retired Former Scout leader from Cork arrested for alleged sexual assault of young boys
A former scout leader from Co. Cork was arrested and charged with 26 counts of sexual assault and 1 count of attempted sexual assault of former young boys from the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland. David Barry, age 72 from Firgrove Gardens, Bishopstown, County Cork was a former scout leader and...
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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