Ian Bailey’s bid to get Garda files adjourned

A HIGH Court application by journalist Ian Bailey to get detailed Garda files for his action for alleged wrongful arrest in connection with the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier will be heard next February.

High Court president, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, yesterday adjourned until February an appeal by Mr Bailey against a decision of the Master of the High Court to reject his application for disclosure of documents – known legally as “discovery” – as part of the preparation for the hearing of his action.

Mr Bailey is currently fighting a separate application to have him extradited to France where authorities there want to question him in connection to the death of Ms Toscan du Plantier at her holiday home in Schull, west Cork, on December 23, 1996.