We are delighted to announce that our trainee solicitor Tiernan Nix has recently been awarded the 2018 Law Society Litigation Prize. This is an award given to the trainee who receives the highest exam results in Litigation each year following the completion of a six month training course with the Law Society. 

This is a fantastic achievement for Tiernan having obtained the highest result in his course of over 450 trainees. He has worked extremely hard in our office over the past few years particularly in the area of litigation.

Tiernan, who will qualify as a solicitor in 2020, will receive his award at a Law Society Ceremony in Dublin later this year. 

A 52-year-old woman who claims she was given the incorrect result for a breast cancer gene test eight years ago is now seriously ill with ovarian cancer, the High Court has heard.
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The woman, a health care professional who lives in the Dublin area, found out in August this year she had late stage ovarian cancer and she is currently undergoing treatment but her prognosis is poor. Read more

John M Joy & Co are proud to announce that we have received a Gold Standard from the Institute of Legal Research Q6000 for the fifth consecutive year.

We are proud of the manner in which we look after our business and in particular the manner in which we look after our clients.

The efforts of our team has been recognised not only in 2018 but indeed for the past five years due to the standards which we have set in our Practice.

The standard has been set and we intend to maintain it into the future.

A Government-backed mortgage scheme for first-time buyers is to be extended following a significant volume of applications in the first three months.

However, some potential borrowers have complained of a lack of clarity around eligibility criteria.

The Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan was launched earlier this year by Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy.

It allows first-time buyers to borrow up to 90% of a property's value.. Read More

RTÉ News has learned that an audit on the CervicalCheck controversy has found that around half of the 206 women affected were not told they may have had a delayed diagnosis and may have benefited from earlier treatment.

The audit also identified more than 12 women who have died, but it has yet to be determined if their death was due to a delayed diagnosis.

A serious incident management team is continuing to gather information from around 13 hospitals on the scale of the controversy.

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