A judgement is due later this morning on Alan Shatter’s appeal against a High Court decision not to quash certain parts of the Guerin report.
The report was highly critical of the way the former Minister for Justice handled allegations of Garda misconduct in the Cavan/Monaghan division.
Alan Shatter stepped down as Minister for Justice on May 7th 2014 – the day after the Guerin report found he failed to properly investigate Sergeant Maurice McCabe’s allegations of corruption and malpractice in Cavan/Monaghan.
A year later, he challenged its findings on the basis he wasn’t given a chance to put forward his side of the story, but the High Court dismissed his arguments.
One year one from that, the O’Higgins Commission of Inquiry cleared him of any wrongdoing and it wasn’t long before his case ended up in the Court of Appeal.
Again he argued he had a right to be heard, that simple fairness demanded it and a serious injustice had befallen him and damaged his good name and livelihood. He used the findings of the O’Higgins inquiry as proof he did nothing wrong.
A judgement on his appeal is due to be made later this morning.
