Solicitor’s children ‘lack resources to fight case’

The adult children of solicitor Brian O’Donnell do not have the resources to fight a case in the big business division of the High Court, it was claimed yesterday.

Ross Maguire, representing Blake, Bruce, Blaise, and Alexandra O’Donnell, was making submissions in relation to an appeal before the Supreme Court against a decision permitting the fast-tracking to the Commercial Court of a legal action by Bank of Ireland against them over ownership of the contents of the family’s home in Killiney, Co Dublin.

Mr Maguire had applied to the Supreme Court for a stay on the Commercial Court proceedings pending the hearing of a full appeal against the order fast-tracking the case.