Shatter seeks to quash Guerin report findings

Former justice minister Alan Shatter has mounted a High Court challenge to quash certain findings of the Guerin Report concerning his handling of complaints by Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe.

Shatter seeks to quash Guerin report findings

The report rendered his position as minister for justice “untenable” and has inflicted “severe and irreversible” damage on him in the political context, he claims.

The former minister claims certain conclusions and the procedure adopted in reaching them have caused him “severe reputational harm” as a public official and lawyer and “in the context of any position I may wish to take up in the future”.

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