Picture This: Matute -v- Medtronic Ireland

The full case can be accessed at Matute -v- Medtronic Ireland Ltd. & ors [2017] IEHC 431

An Engineer who was refused permission to photograph the Defendant's premises in the course of an engineering inspection has been granted an order permitting him to re inspect the property, notwithstanding the fact that the relevant portion of the factory being inspected has since been changed. Instead the Defendant factory has been order to re-instate the property at a cost, they claim of €60,000.

Here the Plaintiff had instructed an Engineer to act in a claim being brought against the Plaintiff's employers, for a repetitive strain injury caused, it is alleged, in the course of his employment. Instead photographs were going to be taken by the defendants employee during the course of a joint engineering inspection and these photographs were then to be forwarded to the Plaintiff's engineer. However, when the engineer received the photographs it became apparent after enquiries