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Mediation talks will start next Tuesday in a case involving a Kerry woman who has terminal cancer. Today in the High Court, Joan Lucey from Cooleen, Dingle was given a commitment from the HSE and two laboratories that they will attend the talks. Mediation will also involve a third party joined in the proceedings by […]
RTÉ Courts Reporter
A 73-year-old woman described as being on her death bed with cervical cancer has pleaded with the HSE to enter direct mediation talks with her before her High Court action which is due to begin next week.
Joan Lucey, Cooleen, Dingle, Co Kerry has sued the HSE, Clinical Pathology Laboratories Incorporated (CPL)with headquarters in Austin, Texas, USA and MedLab Pathology Ltd with registered offices at Sandyford Business Park, Dublin over the alleged misreading, misinterpretation or misreporting of her cervial smear tests taken in February 2011 and August 2011.
Lawyers for Joan Lucey, who is terminally ill, say she is only being offered hollow sympathy from the HSE.
The legal team of a Kerry woman with terminal cervical cancer is making a fresh plea for mediation talks with the HSE. The case taken by 73-year-old Joan Lucey from Cooleen, Dingle came before the High Court again earlier today. Her legal team told the court all their client, who is on her death bed, […]
Joan Lucey, nurse, mother and widow is terminally ill. She has advanced cervical cancer. Her life story involves years of serving this State on the front line, yet now in her dying days she finds herself fighting that same State.