The second lead action of about 100 cases over a vaccine developed in response to the swine flu pandemic of 2009 and 2010 has been provisionally fixed for hearing at the High Court in November.
The boy’s case had also been brought against the Health Products Regulatory Authority but the claims against it have been discontinued. Ms Bennett’s lawyers, Michael Boylan Litigation Law Firm, who represent more than 70 other plaintiffs suing over the vaccine, have sought some €6m costs in relation to her case. Ms Bennett got the Pandemrix vaccine in school in December 2009 as part of the State campaign against the swine flu pandemic and claimed she developed narcolepsy and cataplexy.
Efforts would be made to address that problem but he hoped the parties would also see if they could identify an appropriate venue, which did not have to be a courtroom and did not have to be in Dublin.He fixed for hearing on July 24th a dispute over some sworn material for the case. He also agreed to hear on that date an application for an interim costs payment for Aoife Bennet’s lawyers in relation to her case.