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Taekwon-do Grandmaster Robert Howard snr on Today FM

Simon Palmer — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:56:27 +0000

72 year old Dubliner and Taekwon-do Grandmaster, Robert Howard, has been having a whirlwind few weeks. After being inducted to the Taekwon-do hall of fame in North Korea he has been in much demand from the media wanting to talk to him about his achievements.

Journalist Matt Cooper is a big sports fan and his drivetime radio show, whilst it does feature heavily on current affairs does like to focus on some stories that are a bit different. So they had Grandmaster Howard on the show yesterday.

PLease click below to hear the interview.

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Mortgage write-off story maintains momentum

Simon Palmer — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:40:12 +0000

The legal PR work I am doing is continuing to pay off handsomely for Dublin law firm Anthony Joyce & Co, after having Anthony on RTE TV’s main Six One News last week, and getting him a front page splash in Ireland’s best selling newspaper The Sunday Independent yesterday, today his story also featured on page 2 of The Irish Times (see below) following a telephone interview he did as he was cycling around the countryside on Sunday.

Today he also featured heavily in the broadcast media where he was on Newstalk’s Breakfast Show, a national radio station for which he also did a pre-recorded interview on Sunday. Then he did a live interview for Today FM’s Ray Darcy Show, also a national radio station, the same interview was then also used on the much respected Last Word, hosted by ex-Sunday Tribune Editor, Matt Cooper.

I’ll be adding MP3s of these interviews shortly, meanwhile here’s The Irish Times piece.

The Irish Times article by Kitty Holland (click to zoom).

Front page splash on Ireland’s best selling newspaper

Simon Palmer — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:39:58 +0000

Today I had a bit of coup getting the front page headline, known in the trade as a ‘splash’, on Ireland’s biggest selling newspaper The Sunday Independent. The newspapers has over a million readers, that’s a quarter of the country’s population, so it was a big day for the client, Dublin legal firm Anthony Joyce & Co.

It’s incredible how sometimes a story can gain momentum. We contacted by the journalist Ronal Quinlan following Anthony’s appearance on the TV on the RTE Six One News on Thursday please click here to see it. Ronald needed written confirmation of the decision from the mortgage lender before his editor would give the approval for the story, so we needed to get approval from the client to release the letter and give get to him for his internal approval process. A newspaper doesn’t wait as print deadlines can’t be missed and ended up cutting it a bit fine, but thankfully the front pages are the last to be completed, needless to say I had a busy Saturday. But, it was well worth it to get such a major from page for a client.

The Sunday Independent 'splash' (please click to zoom).

Page 2 - the rest of the story (click to zoom).

Mortgage write-off, Anthony Joyce on RTE Six One News

Simon Palmer — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:25:36 +0000

We had a great bit of legal PR for Dublin law firm Anthony Joyce & Co yesterday when Anthony featured on TV in RTE’s Six One News. He was interviewed by Paul Colgan, who recently also interviewed him for RTE1′s Primetime TV show. Anthony was discussing a case where a couple of clients sold their house and were able to get their mortgage lender to write-off the €200,000 balance of their mortgage.

To read how I secured this please click below.

A lot of focus on promoting Anthony Joyce has been done using digital PR this year, although in previous years it was mainly broadcast media and newspapers. Recently we developed a new website for Anthony Joyce & Co based on the blogging software WordPress and have used the website to target potential issues and events that potential clients maybe be searching for details of, such as the recent Allsop auctions, which have led to a huge increase in hits on their website.

Recently, following the success of mortgage cases, we have started to focus on debt-forgiveness and mortgage write-offs. This led to me adding a Newsletter to Anthony’s website, which summarised all that month’s blog posts and sent them to his database of contacts. Importantly I added the details of media contacts that he had dealt with to this list. This newsletter was received by Paul who read the debt forgiveness articles and decided to interview Anthony for a piece that he was putting together to coincide with the increase in mortgage rates by the ECB. Et viola national TV News.

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Kuvera investors success against legal advisers

Simon Palmer — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:28:29 +0000

Anthony Joyce & Co, the Dublin legal firm, received some major success yesterday in their long running high profile case representing the Kuvera Action Group. A decision by the Court in Dublin ruled that most of the 289 investors were entitled to their money back from Seymour Majors, the legal firm that advised Kuvera in relation to development projects in India.

Below are two article from The Irish Times and The Irish Examiner today outlining the case. If you require any further details, then please call Anthony Joyce on 01 4545000. Please click on the image below to zoom.

Article in The Irish Times 8.12.2010

Article in The Irish Examiner 8.12.2010

Erroneous story regarding legal action in Dubai

Simon Palmer — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:20:36 +0000

I was notified today of a story which appeared in relation to a legal client of mine, the Dublin law firm Anthony Joyce & Co, and two groups of investors whom I also represent. The story appeared on AIB’s ForEx news site after it was fed in via a feed from BusinessWorld.com. The story was written by BusinessWorld but with confusion over two different legal groups of investors and two separate actions.

Here are the corrections from the errors in the story below, which has now been taken down by AIBForEx and Business World, but may have been picked up by investors earlier.

1. Anthony Joyce is currently representing a group of investors called KRI, these are investors in the Kensington Royale Development in Sports City. He is no longer representing the Concerned Dubai Sports City Investors Group, more recently known as the Dubai Action Group, and they are in no way connected to the current action being undertaken by the firm.

2. Whilst Anthony Joyce is currently liaising with MED there are no plans for him or any representative of his firm to travel to Dubai.

3. KRI does not consist of two separate groups, from the Republic of Ireland and Britain, they consist of investors from eight different countries across the globe.

4. At the moment no developer in Dubai is being sued by Anthony Joyce & Co, the KRI Group, or the Dubai Action Group / Concerned Dubai Sports City Investors Group.

If anyone requires any details on either of the parties concerned above then please contact Simon Palmer of Republic PR.

This was the story that appeared….

Irish investors sue Dubai developers

A team of lawyers will today travel to Dubai to represent a group of Irish investors – many of them pensioners – who sank their savings in to the dream of a sunshine getaway only to lose out massively when the investment stalled.

The lawyers will talk on behalf of the Concerned Dubai Sports City Investors Group, which was set up last year to represent Irish people who bought off-plan apartments through the now defunct Larionovo property agents.

The five-star project by Middle Eastern Development (MED) was originally scheduled for completion in early 2009.

The law firm Anthony Joyce and Co was retained by the Irish group and by a similar representative group in Britain whose members had paid deposits for apartments in the 252-unit project.

“We have raised our concerns with MED that the project should have been built within the specified timeframe,” said Joyce of the firm.

He also made it clear that the company should not seek more money until work goes ahead.

The lawyer was awaiting instructions from the clients on whether to go ahead with the project or seek their money back, which would involve launching legal proceedings in Dubai against the developer.

The investors are worried that as much as E20m – cash many hoped would fund their retirements – is caught up in Dubai in a “limbo” after the failure of Ennis, Co Clare-based Larionovo last year. The Irish investors in the scheme, believed to number as many as 1,000, have had trouble trying to find out what has happened to their money and gathered together the cash to send out the law firm to try to find out where they stand with regard to their initial investment and the building project’s future – if any. The investors bought into the Sports City scheme, part of a massive two billion sq ft mixed theme park, which developers said would “dwarf Disneyworld”. It promised golf courses, indoor and outdoor stadia, various academies – including a Manchester United soccer academy – as well as swimming pools, health spas and many other facilities. The investors say their last correspondance received from the developers said that the project was “on hold”. However, they fear the developments have actually been cancelled and believe the term “on hold” is being used to avoid refunding them. Sold on a buy-to-let scheme through a network of worldwide agents, investors were assured of eight per cent returns for the first three years. Most of the units were sold in 2006 and 2007 with prices ranging from E168,000 to E280,000. An unnamed Irish investor was quoted in the Dubai press as saying he had reserved a two-bedroom unit in January 2007 and had paid 30pc of the total buying price of around E64,700 but heard nothing from the developer for two years. On a recent visit to see the project, he discovered that the developers had scaled down the dimensions to a one-bedroom unit on the construction drawings he was shown, that too without any prior information, according to Dubai-based online newspaper, Zawya.com. The report said the scheme is still on sale through property Website, Dubaicondoproperty.com.

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Wanted man Karl Morris of Simple Overseas Properties

Simon Palmer — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:02:12 +0000

Have you seen Karl Morris?

40 clients of Dublin legal firm Anthony Joyce & Co are looking for Karl Morris to recover over €1m of funds, which they claim they paid him for deposits on properties in the Asilah Beach development in Morocco.

Morris has properties in Ireland and Spain. He was last seen at his villa in Benalmadena near Malaga in Spain.

A private detective hired by investors cannot find him so Anthony Joyce is issuing a public appeal to find him.

If you have any details about the whereabouts of Karl Morris then please contact Anthony Joyce on + 353 (0) 1 4545 000.

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Kensington Royale, Dubai Sports City – Middle East Development LLC

Simon Palmer — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:58:37 +0000

Along with solicitor Anthony Joyce, I recently met investors from all over Ireland whom have bought property in the Kensington Royale development in the Dubai Sports City development, which is being marketed by MED (Middle Eastern Development LLC).

'Progress' shot from MED's website July 2010 (please click image to zoom)

The investors agreed to form an action group and appoint Anthony Joyce to act on their behalf and Republic to help them with the media and promotion to other investors on line. This is the sixth overseas property group Anthony Joyce are representing.

The action group is now successfully taking shape and we are receiving multiple daily requests from other investors in Kensington Royale who want to get involved. We have been contacted by over 30 investors from numerous countries around the world.

Anthony Joyce has now contacted MED and is seeking answers and exploring the groups options.

If any further investors would like to join the Group then please contact me on simon@republicpr.ie or telephone on +353 1 282 2504. For further details please see http://www.republicpr.ie.

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Calling investors in Kensington Royale in Dubai Sports City.

Simon Palmer — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:23:55 +0000

Dublin legal firm Anthony Joyce & Co have contacted by a group of investors in Kensington Royal, in Sports City, part of Dubailand in Dubai. The developers are MED (Middle Eastern Developments) has recently written to the purchasers looking for money despite the fact that the developer has not complied with the contract. The group hope to gather more members in order to increase their bargaining power and obtain answers their numerous concerns. If you are a concerned investor in Kensington Royale, please contact Simon Palmer of Republic PR at simon@republicpr.ie for further details.

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Getting a case admitted to Dublin’s Commercial Court can mean a much quicker legal process

Simon Palmer — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:20:01 +0000

Guest post by solicitor Anthony Joyce of Dublin legal firm Anthony Joyce & Co.

Question: I have heard that having a case admitted to the Commercial Court can be a much faster method of obtaining a resolution – is this true? And what are the conditions that must be met to have a case admitted?

Answer: Yes it is true, if you are currently involved in a commercial dispute, having your case admitted to the Commercial Court (also known as the High Court Commercial List) can allow you to resolve a dispute more quickly and effectively than through the normal High Court procedures. The Commercial Court is effectively a fast track of the High Court reserved for commercial cases.

Cases which are admitted to the Commercial Court start and finish in a short time frame, on average, within twenty one weeks of the transfer of proceedings.

An application to have a case admitted to the Commercial Court can be made at any time, but the rules of the Court provide for a stay to be put on proceedings for a period of 28 days to allow mediation, conciliation or arbitration to take place.

In order to gain entry to the Commercial Court the dispute must fall into one of the following categories:

1. Current financial disputes where the claim, or counterclaim, is not less than €1,000,000 can be admitted to the Commercial Court. However, there has been some speculation that the minimum entry level of may be increased to €2,500,000.
2. Any application or proceedings under the Arbitration Acts where the value of any claim or counterclaim is not less than €1,000,000.
3. Any legal dispute relating to a patents, a trade mark, copyright, industrial design or a case relating to ‘passing off’, for example where a competitor has tried to ‘pass off’ your product as their own.
4. Any appeal or application for a judicial review of a previous decision or determination that judge considers it suitable for admission to the Commercial Court.

There is also a catch all condition that can allow any case to heard where the Judge considers it appropriate for entry into the Commercial Court. But, whilst it does have a broad discretion to admit cases, it must be remembered that it is at the discretion of the High Court and even if your case falls into one of the above categories this does not automatically entitle you to entry.

Once your case has been admitted the it runs quickly because of the rules which provide for what is termed ‘detailed case management’, this ensures a strict timetable for any cases has to be met by all parties involved and they are fined if these deadlines are not met – this is why the Commercial Court moves so much faster than the High Court

The Commercial Court in Dublin has been a great success. It has garnered an international reputation as a Court that is simple to access and where disputes can be settled in a swift and cost effective manner compared to Courts abroad.

The success of the Commercial Court has promoted Ireland as a country where any commercial disputes arising can be resolved quickly and effectively. An efficient legal system and settling of disputes in this manner is vitally important in order to be able to attract international business. The Commercial Court is something that Ireland should be very proud off.

by Anthony Joyce, Principal, Anthony Joyce & Co, Dublin – www.anthonyjoyce.ie

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