Monday 25 July 2011
Guinness Galway Hurdle favourite The Real Article will be allowed to take his chance in Thursday's feature race after the Turf Club cancelled an inquiry into the running and riding of the Edward O'Grady-trained gelding at Tipperary on 17 July.

This claim, brought by the firm on behalf of Campion Property Consultants Limited, involved litigation over the recovery of professional fees due to the plaintiff for Auctioneering and other services provided to the Defendant in the sale of a commercial property.

Our firm acted on behalf of the widow and family of a Polish Ship Officer fatally injured in an accident onboard a shipping vessel in Dublin Port.

Frank Ward & Co recently represented a client in an application for an Annulment of marriage.

An Appeal was lodged with the Turf Club following the running of the Irish One Thousand Guineas at the Curragh in May.

The acting Stewards had found that the second placed horse “Tuscan Evening” had caused interference to the horse placed fourth “Caribbean Sunset” ridden by Ryan Moore and trained by Mr. Dermot Weld.  The acting Stewards had therefore disqualified Tuscan Evening from second and promoted the Dermot Weld horse.

An application was brought by way of Judicial Review to the High Court seeking
to challenge various orders of the Mahon Planning Tribunal relating to the former Taoiseach Mr. Bertie Ahern TD. These related to:

1. A claim of Legal Professional Privilege.
2. A claim relating to Parliamentary Privilege as provided in Article 15(13) of the Constitution.
3. The Tribunal refusing to make disclosure of various documents referred to in evidence

A Divisional Hearing of the High Court heard the case and then reserved judgment and found for the Applicant on all grounds.  A summary of the Judgment is attached herewith.  In this action the firm instructed Mr. Brian Murray SC, Mr. Shane Murphy SC, Mr. Barry O Donnell BL and Mr. Douglas Clarke BL.

This case recently settled at Hearing of a young man who suffered traumatic brain injuries following a road traffic accident. The High Court approved a settlement of €3m together with costs of the Proceedings. Such settlement provided for the future care of the Plaintiff with the Peter Bradley Foundation, an association which specialises in the rehabilitation and treatment of patients who have suffered an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).

We were consulted on behalf of the Ward Union Hunt Club, established more than 150 years ago, who obtain an annual licence under the 1976 Wildlife Act from the Minister of the Environment.  Just before Christmas last the Minister issued a restricted licence.