O'Callaghan seeks judicial review on Mahon tribunal findings.

[yehbut_nobut]

Businessman Owen O'Callaghan is one of a group of individuals and firms that today secured leave from the High Court to challenge the Mahon Tribunal's refusal to furnish them with any draft findings that relate to them contained in the tribunal of inquiry's report....
The group claim that the tribunal's refusal to provide them with information is a breach of their rights to fair procedures and will damage their reputations []...

Today at the High Court Mr Justice Michael Peart granted leave...[and] made the matter returnable to early next month.

Fair play to him for stopping this fading from the public gaze, particularly NOW. Cowen must be delighted with them all!



edit: link to story - http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhsnojmhcwau/

[corelli]

Fair play to him for stopping this fading from the public gaze, particularly NOW. Cowen must be delighted with them all!

Sounds an odd decision of Mahon, if true. Would seem to fly in the fact of fair procedure. Generally you have a right to submit comments on draft reports. Rather strange.

[yehbut_nobut]

From irishlandlord.com:

Not that he is immune to the controversies. He changed the status of his company O'Callaghan Properties (OCP) to unlimited some years ago and one of the factors was media coverage of its accounts.

??! What TF does that mean?



Couldnt be that O'Callaghan's name was mentioned during Lenihan's emergency phone call to Japan on the decision to nationalise Anglo, could it?

[stanley]

Sounds an odd decision of Mahon, if true. Would seem to fly in the fact of fair procedure. Generally you have a right to submit comments on draft reports. Rather strange.

Why should they have a right to comment, witnesses at Mahon leaked documents all over the place causing many actions in the HC, some leaks ended up with newspapers and various parties (Bertie et al) were chancing their arm on the CJH defence.

Look at the civil servants involved in the Moriarty Report at the moment, they want to rewrite it so they are not criticised in any way by mere Judges.

Mahon was set up by the Oireachtas, who the bleedin hell does O'Callaghan and others think they are, if he had not made various underhand payments to politicians through himself and Frank Dunlop there would have been no Tribunal, now they seek to delay and change its decision, OOC and FD have no reputation to defend.

Mahon should print and be damned, if they then wish to contest they may but the will of the people through the Oireachtas has preference over any trivial concern they have.

[toxic avenger]

I knew they would do this from comments made on the last day of the Tribunal last October, there was a legal argument between O'Callaghan's S.C. and Mahon over whether there was a right to it or not. Mahon argued that in several prior Tribunals no such thing had happened. Plus, given the leaking and so on recently in relation to the Moriarty report, which has resulted in further public sittings to yet happen, it will extend the Tribunal yay much further.

[stanley]

When you read the article on the irishlandlord.com link above you quickly realise OOC's property empire was built on his connections to FF and the monies he has accrued could easily be liquidated and cover the costs at Mahon, OOC's empire was built on dishonest and illegal payments and there is no reason to think he has changed.

Interesting he should be involved in Prague, stomping ground of his old mucker Liam Lawlor, can there still be a connection beyond the grave, the Lawlor family would not come to Mahon when requested they prevaricated to the end, is this the pay-off.

OOC claims the bottom has been reached in the housing market and housebuyers should realise this, so he can fill his boots and rock on, this guy lives on a planet called me fein and FF, its as if he has the answer to all the country's problems and the developers cannot be allowed to sell at a loss, wow.

Doubt very much if he was in Anglo, he had an open door at AIB and still has them by the short and curlies, if they survive, of course it would not present him with a problem if they did not.

[stanley]

Has OOC and his lackeys now made submissions to the HC.

[perprojustice]

I knew they would do this from comments made on the last day of the Tribunal last October, there was a legal argument between O'Callaghan's S.C. and Mahon over whether there was a right to it or not. Mahon argued that in several prior Tribunals no such thing had happened. Plus, given the leaking and so on recently in relation to the Moriarty report, which has resulted in further public sittings to yet happen, it will extend the Tribunal yay much further.

I am sure that they had a right to get it. Article 6 guarantees the right to a fair trial, can this be argued as being part of the trial?. I think so. It was asked for during the trial.

As regards affecting their reputation, they could be on a looser on that.

[jpc]

I am sure that they had a right to get it. Article 6 guarantees the right to a fair trial, can this be argued as being part of the trial?. I think so. It was asked for during the trial.

As regards affecting their reputation, they could be on a looser on that.

This isn't a trial though.
Its an enquiry that that been hampered by numerous legal instruments.
This being just one more.

[Digout]

Has a date for this hearing been set? Its being heard by the High court?