High Court decides whether HSE owed duty of care to home owner

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent High Court case in which a woman sued the HSE following a fire at her home caused by the reckless behaviour of a vulnerable young woman who was a client of the service provider. In September 2014, the High Court was called upon to decide whether the Health Service Executive (HSE) was liable in negligence to a woman whose house was all but destroyed in a fire caused by the reckless behaviour of a vulnerable young woman. Teresa Ennis was the owner of a property in Athlone, Co Westmeath. On the night of…