Neary appeal ruling - No justice as law prolongs victims’ pain

IT is getting harder to find any relationship between the law and justice.

That is particularly true of the Supreme Court case in which a lawsuit taken by a patient of disgraced former obstetrician Dr Michael Neary was yesterday dismissed on appeal because it was statute barred.

Women across the country will be dismayed by the verdict which has negative implications for 60 or 70 other former patients who are suing the notorious doctor on grounds that unnecessary obstetric operations were performed on them at Our Lady’s. On foot of yesterday’s ruling, the fear is that other cases may also be statute barred.