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Employment lawyer Jason O’Sullivan looks at the pay structures for those in the Irish film industry and how conditions could be improved

Jason O’Sullivan, solicitor and public affairs consultant, and his law firm J.O.S Solicitors has been awarded two prestigious law awards at this year’s Irish Law Awards 2023. Jason was named Lawyer of the Year, while the firm J.O.S Solicitors was awarded Excellence and Innovation in Client Services.

The Overall Winner in the Lawyer of the Year category was Jason O’ Sullivan of award-winning law firm JOS Solicitors, based in Dublin and Galway. It was one of two impressive wins for JOS on the night, with the firm also named Overall Winner in category for Excellence & Innovation in Client Services. 

Among the winners on the night include Lawyer of the Year for the Connacht/ Ulster category which went to Galway’s Jason O’Sullivan who also was overall winner.

Other national winners include Jason’s company, J.O.S Solicitors, who won the award for Excellence & Innovation in Client Services.

Galway Solicitor Jason O’Sullivan has been named the lawyer of the year on a night of celebration for Galway Firms at the Dye & Durham Irish Law Awards held in the Clayton Hotel in Dublin.

On a night that saw five awards come to Galway, It was a case of success on the double for Jason and the firm J.O.S Solicitors who are based on Headford Road with the firm also named as the overall winner of the Excellence & Innovation in Client Services award.

Plaintiff alleges she sustained soft tissue injuries in a ten-step fall down a metal staircase at the attraction. She is represented by J.O.S Solicitors.

Jason O’Sullivan is principal at JOS Solicitors and specialises in employment law.

He said these figures would likely be higher elsewhere.

“The figures would probably be considerably higher if such a comparison was carried out on a private company or enterprise with similar staffing numbers,” he said.

Solicitor Jason O’Sullivan said the COVID-19 ban on evictions, and a backlog in the courts, may have had an impact. He said it can take councils longer to bring cases to court. “There’s more of an obligation on the local authority to engage with the tenant for non-payment of arrears, and sometimes to work with them”.

Jason O’Sullivan, principal and founder of J.O.S Solicitors, urges the government to take action in the wake of scrutiny of RTÉ’s employment practices.

Solicitor Jason O’Sullivan says many data-breaches are down to human error. “Although the level of breaches, they appear quite minor – such as post going to the wrong address – they can still have a negative impact on patients causing them to miss important appointments, for instance. “The quite large number of breaches across the country does denote the sheer scale of sensitive data the HSE deal with daily”.