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Extra judge appointed to ease personal injury case backlog, taaffems reports.

There are 1,600 Dublin-based personal injury claims awaiting a hearing. Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

An extra judge is to be added to work through the 1,600 Dublin-based personal injury claims that are awaiting a hearing. The additional judge will be assigned from March 1 and, as a result, an additional five cases a day will be heard, the Law Society said. At present, cases are being given hearing dates as far away as October, a Courts Service spokesman said. An estimated 1,600 cases can be scheduled in that period. Urgent cases...

 

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