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About LinkBacksOn the 2 issues put to them. The Tribunal cannot question him on his statements to the Dail and the papers prepared on currency transactions are privileged.
On the 2 issues put to them. The Tribunal cannot question him on his statements to the Dail and the papers prepared on currency transactions are privileged.
any matter of such significance will nearly always go to the Supreme Court. The High Court decision is almost an irrelevance and solely the kick off mechanism for seeking a ruling from the S.C,
I hope it is appealed. It depends on what the judgement says obviously, but the implications could be rather severe if a politician can escape a Dail inquiry by just casually uttering something in the Dail, and then claiming privilege over it.
What an absolutely ridiculous decision.
If the ruling is upheld, Ahern can effectively go into the dail, stand up and say 'I took massive bribes off developers' and then go to the tribunal and say under oath 'I never took a penny' and the tribunal won't be able to do anything about it.
Actual morality is doing what is right regardless of what you're told. Religious morality is doing what you're told, regardless of if it's right.
How can this be?
According to the righteous he only went to the high court to delay the tribunal, but in the event he hammers the tribunal 3-0.
The high court finds on three counts that a tribunal was trying to act in a way it wasn’t entitled to act, who’d have thunk it.
The Dail statements case could be debatable but the tribunal is shown to have acted outside its power (and the power of any court of law) by demanding access to documents covered by legal privilege.
It is time for Alan Mahon to step down and be replaced by someone with a better understanding of the law, the concept judicial neutrality and value for taxpayer's money.
This wouldn't be the first in recent times of the High Court giving a ruling that baffles.
Amazing, the Tribunal experts here were wrong and the High Court gets the blame.
No one has read the text yet, I take it.
Your talk of an appeal, is therefore preamature.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.
They were “wrong” because as usual their opinions were based on what they wanted to believe rather than on the “facts” of the case being made by Ahern.Originally Posted by returning officer
What was being determined was a point of "law" - not of "fact". Now it seems the tribunal has been nobbled, the full "facts" won't necessarily come out.They were “wrong” because as usual their opinions were based on what they wanted to believe rather than on the “facts” of the case being made by Ahern.
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