Judges in personal injury claims in Dublin are repeatedly refusing to accept medical reports by a Belfast-based doctor who “will not make himself available to be cross examined” and is not licensed to practice medicine in the Republic.
A CONWOMAN, who received an 18-month suspended sentence for a €9,500 fraud earlier this month, saw her €60,000 personal injury claim for fall in a toilet go down the drain after a judge called her case “a complete mess”.
A mother of two who kept a blank firing pistol in a safe as a "prop" for her protection after getting threatened has been given a wholly suspended sentence.