Potential hearing of case against Michael Fingleton to take place early next year

The High Court and Court of Appeal both refused to halt the case initiated in 2012 by the liquidators of the State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, which took over Irish Nationwide after it failed

Former Irish Nationwide chief executive Michael Fingleton. Picture: RollingNews.ie

The hearing of a liquidator’s case against  former Irish Nationwide Building Society boss Michael Fingleton has been pencilled in for early next year, subject to the Supreme Court permitting it to proceed.

The trial had been provisionally listed for October, but was on Friday pushed back to January as the parties await judgment from the top court on Mr Fingleton’s third bid to have the civil case thrown out because of alleged unfairness.