A national campaign to help stamp out financial abuse of vulnerable adults gets under way today against a backdrop of a 44% rise in the number of alleged cases.

Almost 8,000 claims of adult abuse or neglect have been made to the HSE.

In the wake of the Grace and Áras Attracta abuse scandals, Claire O’Sullivan looks at the gap in law protecting vulnerable adults and what’s being done to close it.

People with an intellectual disability are in many cases now outliving their carers, typically their parents.

THE law should be changed to make it easier to prosecute carers who sexually exploit people with disabilities, the outgoing DPP has said.

People struggling to pay personal debts should be dealt with out of court without the threat of jail, according to legal experts.

A MAJOR overhaul of land law to make the buying and selling of property quicker and cheaper will be welcomed by the legal profession, it was claimed yesterday.

AN outdated and expensive legal system designed to protect vulnerable elderly people should be scrapped and replaced with a new, more flexible public guardian’s office, law reformers said yesterday.