While litigation will remain the dominant mechanism in resolving disputes, there are now several alternative mechanisms such as arbitration, mediation and conciliation to consider.

Only one-in-five court judgments is ever satisfied, according to the Law Society of Ireland, leaving banks and the revenue commissioners hundreds of millions of euro out of pocket.

A CARDIAC patient was found dead on the floor of a hospital toilet after a machine monitoring his heart rate was left unsupervised.

ONE of the “finest lawyers of his generation” was among tributes made yesterday at Cork District Court to solicitor Gerrard McCarthy, who died unexpectedly on Tuesday last week.

A FAMILY is seeking a garda investigation into 15 hours of missing nursing records in the case of a mother who died from a perforated ulcer that had been diagnosed as constipation.