Almost 500 Donegal MICA homeowners swamp High Court with writs

July 13, 2022

Almost 500 High Court writs have been lodged in the High Court by homeowners in Donegal seeking compensation outside of the MICA redress scheme.

The applicants are part of a multi-party court action taken by Coleman Legal following a number of meetings held in the county recently.

Donegal Daily has learned that a total of 485 writs have now been lodged with 600 expected to be filed by the weekend.

The writs are seeking compensation between the amount paid out by Government and the shortfall homeowners may find themselves needing to rebuild their homes.

The number of High Court writs being issued is unprecedented with an average of 25 being the norm.

A total of over 1,000 applicants have now signed up for the legal scheme with a figure of close to 1,500 expected by this weekend.

One of those who have now signed up to the scheme of leading MICA campaigner Michael Doherty.

He said “I have been seriously looking at this after seeing how we had been treated in Dublin…….I’ll be going ahead.”

Mr Doherty, of the Mica Action Group (MAG) said that after weeks of consideration he had now joined the legal group action with Coleman Legal.

Those funding the legal big,  local businessmen Shaun Hegarty and Adrian Sheridan, have said they may be forced to cap the overall number of individual cases to 2,000 applicants.

Those who sign up for the legal scheme have been assured they can withdraw from the scheme at any time and also that their over costs will be between €750 and €1,500.

Dave Coleman said he expected the action to be the biggest of its kind in the history of the State.

 

 

 

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