Cervicalcheck

The CervicalCheck Tribunal received just eight claims in nearly a full year of operation, according to its first annual report. The tribunal began receiving claims in December 2020 but received just eight claims from 10 people by October 2021, representing a combination of claims transferred from th

The CervicalCheck Tribunal has not yet received a single claim, despite having begun work more than two months ago, The Irish Times reports. Established as an alternative to court for claims emanating from the CervicalCheck controversy, the tribunal plans to start an “outreach programme”

Ms Justice Ann Power, a serving judge of the Court of Appeal, has been appointed as chairperson of the CervicalCheck Tribunal. She succeeds Ms Justice Mary Irvine, the former Court of Appeal judge who was appointed to chair the tribunal in 2018 but gave up the role on her appointment as president of

More than half a dozen new lawsuits have been filed in connection with the CervicalCheck scandal since the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the Morrissey case earlier this month. Ruth Morrissey was awarded €2.1 million by the High Court last year over the misreading of her cervical sme

The Health Service Executive, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, and Medlab Pathology Limited have lost a Supreme Court appeal against a High Court judgment in favour of Ruth Morrissey arising from the misreading of her cervical smear tests. Mrs Morrissey was not told until 2018 that a review carried o

Women who suffered from "a litany of failures" in cervical screening have received an official state apology. Speaking in the Dáil yesterday, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the State was saying "sorry to those whose lives were shattered, those whose lives were destroyed, and those whose lives co

Legislation to implement the recommendations of High Court judge Mr Justice Charles Meenan on alternatives to court for claims arising from the CervicalCheck scandal has taken a major step forward. The Department of Health has published the General Scheme of the CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019, whi

A senior High Court judge has warned that there are "not enough judges" to hear cases brought by women affected by mistakes in cervical cancer screening. Mr Justice Kevin Cross made the remarks during proceedings brought by Ruth Morrissey against the HSE and two US-based laboratories involved in cer