A “DRAMATIC” view has been taken by the Attorney General that documents signed four years ago by the estranged husband of a woman consenting to fertility treatment for his wife mean there can be a subsequent implantation in his wife of any resulting embryos without any new consent from the husband, the High Court was told yesterday.

GARDAÍ were aware, some months prior to Judge Brian Curtin’s appointment in 2001 as a Circuit Court judge, of “electronic transmissions” and the “matters now being investigated” by a Joint Oireachtas Committee set up to investigate the judge’s alleged misbehaviour, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.