Australian court team to sit in Dublin in history-making case

IRISH legal history will be created next month when an entire Australian court will sit in Dublin to hear a negligence action taken by an Irish holidaymaker who was seriously injured in a diving accident in 1999.

More than a dozen members of the New South Wales Supreme Court, led by Mr Justice Anthony Whealy, will hear evidence in a case taken by 32-year-old former train driver Garry Mulligan.

The wheelchair-bound Dubliner is suing the local authority in Coffs Harbour, a popular coastal resort with a population of 60,000, located halfway between Sydney and Brisbane.