Joan Lucey's son and daughter to continue her CervicalCheck case

Mrs Lucey’s claims for general damages fell away when she died but the action can now be reconstituted as a fatal claim, with her children replacing her as plaintiffs.

Retired nurse and widow Joan Lucey died last Friday just hours after the HSE and the laboratories pledged to begin mediation towards resolving the case and after her lawyers had gone to court twice pleading for mediation to begin as Mrs Lucey was on her deathbed.

The family of Kerry woman Joan Lucey, who died before mediation could take place in her High Court case over her cervical smear slides, will now continue her action.

Ms Lucey’s son Sean and her daughter Sinead will take the place of their mother in the legal action against the HSE and two laboratories over Mrs Lucey’s smear tests of 2011.