The High Court has fixed a date in June for the hearing of damages actions by a couple whose unborn child was aborted after they were wrongly told it had a “fatal foetal abnormality”.

The couple have sued, seeking damages, against various parties. These include the National Maternity Hospital (NMH), Holles Street, Dublin, and a private clinic, Merrion Fetal Health.

The defendants deny any wrongdoing. The case is expected to take several days to hear.

The proceedings were briefly mentioned before the High Court this week, when it made orders allowing a Scottish health board, which allegedly carried out some of the testing at the centre of the claims, to be added as a defendant to the parents’ separate damages actions.