Businessman Denis O’Brien
RTÉ reports:
The High Court has ruled that businessman Denis O’Brien should pay all the costs of his failed action over statements made by two TDs in the Dáil about his banking affairs.
Mr O’Brien took his case against the Clerk of the Dáil and the State over comments made by Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy and Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty in the Dáil in 2015.
He wanted the court to reprimand the TDs and he claimed they had interfered with a court case he was taking against RTÉ.
…This morning, the judge [Ms Justice Úna Ní Raifeartaigh] ruled that the facts of the case were unusual and had some degree of novelty as well as being of some public importance.
…But she ruled there was “an insufficient degree of novelty” to cause her to depart from the normal rule where the losing party pays the costs of a case.
Denis O’Brien must pay High Court costs (RTE)
Previously: It’s Been A Privilege
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lovely
Nice to see justice done.
maybe he could sue the judge. lol
the cynic in me is thinking that court costs like this can be offset against normal business liabilities. tax exempt, in other words.
…don’t you have to be paying tax in the first place…
these shenanigans is how they end up paying no tax, no?
Of course! Taxes are for little people, not for Maltese residents who own politicians.
So Denis went full retard?
Thank you, Jesus, thank you Una.
D’ya know the five lamps Dinny…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ogsR7KL1aDU
and the weather is lovely too
check those numbers lads
we could be in for a hat-trick of luck
I think it might be incumbent on the reporters of these events to keep us informed as to whether any part of this bill is ever paid.