Hui Hao, a 41-year-old graphic designer, of Pugin House, Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham, Dublin, told Judge Roderick Maguire in the Circuit Civil Court today that for six months in every year, she cannot go out without significant medical and cosmetic protection

Mr Justice Paul Coffey said it was very clear to him that the woman’s sense of suffering was compounded by the fact there was no aftercare offered by Dundrum Cosmetic Clinic ten years ago.