Personal Injury Solicitors Dublin – Expert Legal Representation Ireland

Comprehensive Accident Claims Across Ireland

Personal injury law requires both technical knowledge and genuine advocacy to secure proper compensation for injured parties. Our Dublin-based personal injury solicitors handle road traffic accidents, workplace injuries, medical negligence, and public liability cases throughout Ireland. We work with medical experts, engineers, and vocational rehabilitation specialists to build compelling cases that reflect the true impact of injuries on our clients’ lives.

Working on conditional fee arrangements for appropriate cases, we secure settlements and court awards for clients suffering injuries. Our approach combines thorough case preparation with sensitive client care, ensuring injured parties receive not only financial compensation but also access to proper medical treatment and rehabilitation services.

Specialist Areas:

• Serious Injury Claims: Spinal injuries, brain trauma, limb loss requiring ongoing care
• Road Traffic Accidents: Collisions, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian injuries
• Medical Negligence: Hospital errors, misdiagnosis, surgical complications, birth injuries
• Workplace Accidents: Construction injuries, industrial accidents, occupational diseases
• Public Liability: Slip and fall accidents, defective premises, product liability
• Fatal Accident Claims: Wrongful death compensation for surviving family members

Our Process: We begin with immediate investigation and evidence preservation, working with accident reconstruction experts and medical specialists from the outset. Our solicitors coordinate rehabilitation programmes while building strong legal cases backed by expert evidence. We negotiate with insurance companies and proceed to trial when necessary to secure fair compensation.

Protecting Ireland’s Most Vulnerable Citizens

Housing and welfare law affects Ireland’s most marginalised communities, making expert legal representation essential for protecting basic human rights. Our housing specialists challenge unlawful evictions, discriminatory practices by local authorities, and widespread failures in social housing provision. We represent homeless individuals and families, challenging decisions that leave people without adequate accommodation in breach of constitutional rights.

Our welfare law practice represents clients before the Social Welfare Appeals Office, challenging decisions on disability allowance, carer’s allowance, and supplementary welfare payments. We handle complex cases involving EU coordination regulations, habitual residence conditions, and appeals requiring detailed medical and financial evidence.

Key Services:

• Emergency Housing Applications: Injunctive relief preventing unlawful evictions
• Judicial Review: Challenging housing authority decisions, planning permissions affecting communities
• Discrimination Cases: Housing allocation, disabilities accommodation, family status discrimination
• Welfare Appeals: Disability payments, carer’s allowance, means assessments, residence requirements
• Traveller Accommodation: Challenging failures to provide adequate halting sites
• European Social Charter: Strategic litigation advancing housing rights under international law

Advancing Equal Rights Across Irish Society

Discrimination law protects fundamental human dignity while promoting substantive equality across all sectors of Irish society. KOD Lyons represents individuals and organisations challenging discrimination based on any of the nine protected grounds under Irish equality legislation: gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, and membership of the Traveller Community.

Our equality specialists appear regularly before the Workplace Relations Commission, Circuit Court, and High Court in cases that shape the development of Irish anti-discrimination law. We handle both individual discrimination complaints and strategic group litigation that addresses discrimination affecting multiple parties.

Practice Areas:

• Employment Discrimination: Recruitment bias, promotion denials, pregnancy discrimination, disability accommodation
• Service Provision: Discrimination in shops, restaurants, healthcare, education, financial services
• Accommodation: Rental refusals, mortgage discrimination, accommodation denial
• Educational Discrimination: School admissions, special needs provision, religious discrimination
• Goods and Services: Access barriers, discriminatory pricing, service refusal
• Advertising: Discriminatory advertisements, recruitment notices, property listings

Strategic Litigation: We pursue test cases that establish important legal precedents, working with equality organisations to challenge discrimination affecting entire communities. Our lawyers have experience in cases advancing equality jurisprudence in Irish and European courts.

Holding State Power Accountable

Public law challenges ensure State bodies operate within constitutional boundaries while protecting individual rights against administrative overreach. Our judicial review team has extensive High Court experience challenging unlawful State decisions, procedural failures, and breaches of constitutional rights across all areas of public administration.

We represent individuals, community groups, NGOs, and business interests in cases involving planning decisions, immigration matters, criminal justice issues, social welfare disputes, and environmental law. Our lawyers understand the complex interplay between Irish constitutional law, European Union law, and the European Convention on Human Rights.

Specialist Areas:

• Planning and Environment: Challenging development permissions, environmental impact assessments
• Immigration and Asylum: Deportation orders, international protection decisions, detention challenges
• Criminal Justice: Garda investigations, prosecution decisions, prison conditions
• Administrative Law: State decision-making, fair procedures, legitimate expectations
• Constitutional Rights: Privacy, family rights, property rights, fair trial guarantees
• European Law: EU regulations, preliminary references, state aid challenges

Emergency Applications: We provide availability for urgent judicial review applications, securing emergency orders and interim injunctions when constitutional rights are at immediate risk. Our team appears in urgent court sittings for time-sensitive matters.

Expert Workplace Legal Services

Employment law affects every workplace relationship in Ireland, requiring both preventive legal advice and strategic litigation knowledge when disputes arise. Our employment specialists advise employers and employees on the full range of workplace legal issues, from contract drafting to complex discrimination and dismissal cases requiring representation before specialist tribunals.

We appear regularly before the Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court, handling cases involving unfair dismissal, redundancy, workplace harassment, discrimination, and breach of contract. Our team has particular knowledge in senior executive terminations, collective redundancies, and complex cases involving restrictive covenants and confidentiality agreements.

Employee Services:

• Unfair Dismissal Claims: Procedural challenges, substantive unfairness, constructive dismissal
• Redundancy Rights: Selection criteria challenges, consultation failures, enhanced payments
• Discrimination and Harassment: Protected ground discrimination, workplace bullying, dignity at work
• Contract Disputes: Bonus claims, commission disputes, notice pay, restrictive covenants
• Whistleblowing Protection: Protected disclosures, retaliation challenges, safety concerns

Employer Services:

• Disciplinary Procedures: Investigation protocols, fair dismissal procedures, appeals processes
• Redundancy Planning: Selection criteria, consultation requirements, collective redundancies
• Contract Drafting: Employment agreements, confidentiality clauses, restrictive covenants
• Workplace Policies: Anti-bullying procedures, equality policies, grievance mechanisms
• Tribunal Defence: Strategic defence of employment claims, settlement negotiations