Supermac’s founder Pat McDonagh claims the judiciary is ‘letting the whole country down’ in the way it handles compensation cases. He told Newstalk Breakfast that there are “Santa Claus judges” who are making large awards in some cases. Who is in charge?”The Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) has been rendered useless, he added. When people did not achieve the awards they wanted their legal representatives told them ‘we can get you more by going to court,’ he said. The money in the PIAB fund could be used to set up a specialist garda fraud division, he said.

Source: Irish Examiner June 04, 2019 07:52 UTC