8 Reflections from the High Court: The Recent Case of NG

28 May 2021

At this workshopl, ELPIN members reviewed and debatde the considerations and implications of a recent court case that came to the Irish High Court earlier in the month and which one of the ELPIN members had been in attendance.  The case was heard on May 24th and involved an order allowing HSE doctors at a maternity hospital deliver by caesarean section the child of a heavily pregnant woman who is currently remanded in custody.  The High Court made the order after lawyers for the HSE said that the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, suffers from a mental health illness and lacks the capacity to make decisions regarding her own and her unborn infant's health.