The high-profile trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives including the bank’s former chairman, Seán FitzPatrick, will open at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

The family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn plans to sue the former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm and 10 other former Anglo directors.

Lawyers for three former Anglo Irish Bank executives due to go on trial next January have raised concerns about the slow pace of the disclosure of documents from the Department of Finance.

A request has been made to elect a trial judge to deal with disclosure and prevent “a media frenzy whipping up a lynch mob mentality” in relation to the upcoming trial of former Anglo Irish Bank executives.