These settlements have created an awful precedent for the HSE. No screening process will capture every single case, that’s not what they are designed to do, but I believe one of the initial court cases here resulted in the judge setting a bar so high (requiring absolute confidence) that it is actually unachievable for a screening process. It means that settlements like this will now be a common place, even when a screening process is within normal global standards. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an appeal to that original ruling given the precedent it set.
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These settlements have created an awful precedent for the HSE. No screening process will capture every single case, that’s not what they are designed to do, but I believe one of the initial court cases here resulted in the judge setting a bar so high (requiring absolute confidence) that it is actually unachievable for a screening process. It means that settlements like this will now be a common place, even when a screening process is within normal global standards. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an appeal to that original ruling given the precedent it set.
[This is that ruling I am referring to above](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/judge-sets-absolute-confidence-as-screening-threshold-1.3880289)