The Rehab Group is seeking an indemnity from its former chief executive, Angela Kerins, in defamation proceedings brought against the charity over denials of developer John Kelly’s claims that he gave Ms Kerins use of a helicopter, a private jet, and hospitality worth €100,000 with a view to securing rights to buy Rehab’s property at Roslyn Park, Dublin 4.

Members of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn’s family are not entitled to better disclosure of documents and materials by a bank they are suing over the alleged unlawful issuing of €2.3bn in loans to family companies, a High Court judge ruled.

The Quinn family are concerned to ensure a dispute over the method of analysing 700,000 documents for Irish Bank Resolution Corporation’s action against members of the family does not delay their own action against the bank aimed at avoiding liability for some €2.34bn loans, the Commercial Court has heard.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation wants to use a US-style form of technically assisted discovery to analyse the relevance of almost 1.75m documents for its action alleging members of the Quinn family conspired to put valuable assets beyond its reach.

PUBLIC officials must be mindful of legal obligations in conducting reviews and investigations, says Karyn Harty, partner with McCann FitzGerald. She was addressing the Public Affairs Ireland seminar yesterday.