Tribunal rejects appeal against SouthDoc ruling

An employment appeals tribunal that ruled in favour of allowing some witnesses give evidence in camera in a case involving SouthDoc has rejected an attempt by the Irish Examiner to reverse that ruling.

Yesterday, the newspaper’s barrister, Eoin Clifford, argued that the decision to hold part of the hearing in camera could potentially “open the floodgates for every redundancy case coming in here [before the tribunal] to be heard in camera”.

“It’s a very, arguably, dangerous precedent,” Mr Clifford said, and was the reason the Irish Examiner had tried to have the ruling reversed.