Pharmacy sued over pregnancy test sale

A woman who claimed a pharmacy allowed her husband watch CCTV footage of her buying a pregnancy test kit has settled a €38,000 damages claim against the pharmacy for an undisclosed sum in the Circuit Civil Court.

The woman, who cannot be named by order of the judge, said her marriage had been highly dysfunctional and difficult for a number of years before the October 2010 incident, which had worsened her relationship with her now deceased husband.

She told her barrister, Martina O’Neill, she had bought the pregnancy test for a friend but her husband found the purchase receipt at home and had gone to the pharmacy with it.