Legal News (Healthcare Law)

Since the 1992 case of Attorney General v X (the X case) termination of pregnancy in Ireland is lawful if it is established as a matter of probability that there is a real and substantial risk to the life, as distinct from the health, of the mother and that such risk could only be avoided by termination. Ireland has been found to be in breach of the European Convention of Human Rights, however, owing to its

On 18 September 2014, members of the Hayes Healthcare Team attended a Special Study Day on Foetal Monitoring organised by the Clinical Indemnity Scheme (CIS) of the State Claims Agency and Dr Peter McKenna, Consultant Obstetrician / Gynaecologist at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin.

In a recent High Court Judgment, Mr Justice Sean Ryan dismissed the claim of Ms Ciara Hamilton against the Health Service Executive, finding that there was no negligence on the part of the staff of Kerry General Hospital during the delivery of her son on 11 June 2011.

Hayes conference ‘Embracing Reform – the new landscape in clinical negligence litigation’ is featured in the Summer 2014 edition of The Consultant magazine, Official Journal of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association.

In her judgment of Wednesday 4 June in Joseph Hewitt –v- the Health Service Executive, Ms Justice Baker concluded that the Plaintiff, Mr Hewitt, who had issued proceedings on 25 January 2012, was not statute barred from taking a wrongful death action against the HSE over the death of his wife in June 2010.

The Road Safety Authority (RSA) recently published updated National Medical Fitness to Drive Guidelines for Group 1 (motorcycle/car/tractor) and Group 2(truck/bus) drivers.