Nurses sought to cancel erasure

Ed Madden looks at a recent High Court case in which two nurses brought an application seeking to cancel a decision that their names be erased from the register of nurses. In January 2017, the High Court delivered its judgment in a case in which two nurses brought an application under section 39(3) of the Nurses Act, 1985, seeking to cancel a decision of An Bord Altranais (“the Board”) that their names be erased from the register of nurses. The decision of the Board followed an inquiry by a Fitness to Practise Committee (“the Committee”) into allegations of professional misconduct.…