Haemophilia Society's High Court application dismissed

The Irish Haemophilia Society has lost its application for a judicial review of the banning of certain documents by the Lyndsay Tribunal.

The High Court upheld Judge Alyson Lyndsay's ruling that the Blood Transfusion Service Board's files are privileged. Dismissing the application, Judge Peter Kelly said the IHS had failed to prove that the tribunal was wrong in law to ban the 611 documents.

It had also not proven that the tribunal reversed the onus of proof on the BTSB to illustrate why the documents were privileged, he added.

Finally, he added, the IHS had failed to convince that circumstances justified inspection of the documents and cross-examination of BTSB officials over their contents.

He concluded by saying that in all, no arguable case had been presented.