The High Court has extended an interim injunction preventing the deportation of a South African man with HIV, pending further medical evidence.
Mr Justice John MacMenamin adjourned the legal challenge to the deportation order, first initiated on August 2nd, to next Monday.
He extended the injunction preventing the applicant, Mr N, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, from being deported. Counsel for Mr N told Mr Justice MacMenamin that further blood tests had been conducted recently and the results were awaited.
Mr N claims that if he was returned home he would be denied treatment by the South African health authorities which, he claimed, openly discriminated against the treatment of HIV sufferers. He would be faced with the prospect of dying from Aids and the Minister for Justice, by failing to consider his application for revocation of the order, had failed to take account of the risk to his life.
Counsel had said that new information relating to Mr N's medical condition and proposed treatment in a Dublin hospital had been furnished to the Minister.