9 November 2010 Who Cares? An Investigation into the Right to Nursing Home Care in Ireland, Office of the Ombudsman

9 November 2010 Who Cares? An Investigation into the Right to Nursing Home Care in Ireland, Office of the Ombudsman: This can include tactical delay, the threat of costs being awarded against the plaintiff, obfuscation, introduction of irrelevant arguments, misrepresentation and much more besides. In fairness, lawyers on both sides may be prone to conducting business in this fashion. But in a case taken by a citizen against his or her own State, and on a matter of genuine public interest, it should not become a matter of winning or losing. "The real issue has to do with serving the public interest". Nevertheless, it does seem on occasion that the response of State bodies to litigation may be based more on protecting the interests of the body itself than on serving the wider public interest?