High Court dispute over elderly woman's €115k nursing home arrears raises conflict of interest concerns
A daughter of an elderly woman with Alzheimer's cannot represent her mother's estate in a legal dispute over €115,000 arrears of nursing home fees under the Fair Deal scheme due to conflict of interest concerns, the president of the High Court has ruled.
The mother is a ward of court since 2017 and the HSE claims it has not received acceptable proposals for payment of arrears from the daughter and another male relative, a lawyer, in their capacity as joint committee of the mother's estate.
