Power Of Attorney

Attorney General Paul Gallagher

This morning.

Via Irish Times:

Attorney General Paul Gallagher acted in a private capacity for former Independent News & Media (INM) directors in a hearing with High Court inspectors, days before the Government said his private client work as a barrister had ceased.

Informed sources said Mr Gallagher, a senior counsel who had Government permission to work privately, was known in legal circles to have participated in a very recent cross-examination of a witness before the inspectors who are inquiring into INM’s affairs. The inspectors have been conducting hearings in private, sometimes on a Saturday to facilitate witnesses.

….The Government said last Thursday that Mr Gallagher had “no continuing private professional obligations” but did not say when such obligations ceased. An authoritative source, who had said the previous day that Mr Gallagher’s work for the former INM directors was continuing, said after the Government statement that such work had stopped, but did not say when or why.

…The inspectors were appointed by the High Court to carry out a company law inquiry into INM on foot of a request from the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, the State’s business law enforcer.

Mr Gallagher’s work in a private capacity for former INM directors has led to Opposition claims of a conflict of interest because the Attorney General is the Government’s legal adviser and the State’s chief law officer.

Good times.

Call for answers on Attorney General’s private work grows louder (Irish Times)

Previously: Nixer

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