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High Court quashes ministerial refusal to halt deportation
The High Court has quashed a “disproportionate and unreasonable” ministerial refusal to halt the deportation of a Nigerian woman who is married to an Irish man with an intellectual disability and bipolar disorder.
Mr Justice Gerard Hogan yesterday described as “totally unbalanced” the minister for justice’s 2009 finding that if the woman was deported, her husband had the option of applying for a visa if he wished to visit her in Nigeria. Even assuming the husband would obtain an entry visa to Nigeria, the minister gave no consideration to how he could possibly afford such a trip given he was wholly dependent on disability benefit, he said. Any visit or move to Nigeria would pose a “considerable” risk to his health, given his requirements for extensive daily medication.
“These considerations are so manifestly obvious that I will merely say that it is most surprising that they do not feature at all in the minister’s analysis.”
The woman, now aged 24, arrived in Ireland in August 2007 and was refused asylum and subsidiary protection. The couple met here in May 2009 and the woman was told in July 2009 it was proposed to deport her. They married in November and the making of the deportation order was notified to the woman in December 2009. The couple sought permission for her to remain in the State based on her marriage to an Irish citizen. They were told in July 2010 the minister had refused to revoke the deportation order. The deportation was stayed pending the outcome of the case.
Injunction granted over client access
A hotel marketing agency has been granted a High Court injunction preventing one of its key former workers from approaching clients for the first year of her employment with a rival firm.
The injunction remains pending the full hearing of an action for alleged breach of contract being taken by Net Affinity Ltd against Michelle Conaghan and her new employer Revmac Ltd, trading as Avvio. The injunction also says Avvio cannot approach clients for the same period.
Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne yesterday granted a limited order to Net Affinity.
Liver patient waited three days for bed
A woman with liver failure waited three days in the emergency department of a Dublin hospital for a bed, an inquest heard.
Mary Dignam (62), Balgriffin, Malahide Road, Co Dublin, died at Beaumont Hospital on June 20th, 2010.
She had been transferred from St Patrick's Hospital on June 11th for treatment for liver failure.
She remained on a chair in the emergency department for the first night and was transferred to a trolley the following day.
She finally got a hospital bed on June 14th.