• Healthcare

• Medical Malpractice Law
• Healthcare Law
• Medico-Legal advice
• Inquests
• Irish Medical Council and disciplinary hearings

Jennifer advises:

• Hospitals
• Healthcare Professionals
• Pharmaceutical and clinical laboratory services

Education

• University College Cork, BCL
• Trinity College Dublin, M. Litt – Master of Literature (Constitutional Law)

Professional Memberships

Member of Law Society of Ireland

• Representing the interests of a number of major Irish Hospitals to include the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Beaumont Hospital, St Vincent’s University Hospital and Tallaght Hospital on the instruction of the Clinical Indemnity Scheme of the State Claims Agency.

• Acting for hospitals and medical practitioners in the defence of obstetric cases resulting in birth defects, to include cerebral palsy.

• Acting on behalf of Quest Diagnostics Inc, a US Fortune 500 company, in defence of a number of fast tracked professional negligence proceedings.

• Acting on behalf of a clinical laboratory in the defence of the fast tracked case of Morrissey & anor v. Health Service Executive & ors [2019] arising out of the State’s cervical screening program. This case was ultimately appealed to the Supreme Court and is considered a landmark judgement in the area of cytology.

• A €15 million settlement in respect of a minor plaintiff who suffered a catastrophic birth injury and where period payment orders were considered but the minor plaintiffs parents sought full and final settlement.

• Assisting a HSE hospital in the highly sensitive management of a number of high profile Inquests and subsequent infant fatal injury claims.

• Representing the interests of a GP who was subject to a complaint to the Irish Medical Council following the death of a patient and in which case, the complaint was ultimately successfully struck out against the GP.