Cork-based campaigner against bogus treatments for cancer and autism wins High Court action

Won her High Court challenge against a District Court judge's order not to post anything on social media which is abusive or offensive
Fiona O'Leary actively campaigns against pseudoscience and treatments offered to people with cancer, and autism. 

Fiona O'Leary actively campaigns against pseudoscience and treatments offered to people with cancer, and autism. 

A campaigner against bogus medical treatments has won her High Court challenge against a District Court Judge's order not to post anything on social media which is abusive or offensive to any person.

Fiona O'Leary, who actively campaigns against pseudoscience and treatments offered to people with cancer, and autism, had challenged the condition imposed on her by Judge James McNulty at a sitting of Bandon District Court last January, on the grounds that it breached her right to freedom of expression.

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