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Damages - Breach of duty of care - Offer of employment - Unconditional offer - Dismissal - Verification of qualification

Contract - Breach of contract – Damages – Termination of employment – Appellant seeking to appeal against an interlocutory order – Whether trial judge was in error in failing to accept that the respondent’s claim was in substance a claim for damages for breach of contract 

Employment law - Unfair procedures – Breach of contractual terms – Fair procedures – Appellant seeking an order restraining the respondent from continuing with a disciplinary process – Whether it was sufficiently clear that the disciplinary process had gone irremediably wrong  

Employment - Disciplinary action - Findings of inappropriate behaviour - Refusal to permit remedy of appeal - Judicial review - Mootness - Rational of filing judicial review - de minimis principle  

Waitress who hurt hand when jug ‘exploded’ awarded €500,000 Court hears that waitress suffered significant injury which had altered her life.

Personal injuries to minor working in quarry - €453,000 damages for partial loss of foot 

Court upholds chef’s award of €91,000

Chef sacked over quality of sandwich made for boss wins €14k award