Shatter loses legal challenge over Guerin report

Former Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has lost his legal challenge aimed at quashing parts of a report concerning his handling of allegations made by Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

Shatter loses legal challenge over Guerin report

Mr Justice Seamus Noonan said he could not see how Mr Shatter, as a member of the Government that decided to obtain and publish the report compiled by barrister Sean Guerin, “can complain of the consequences”.

The report involved an expression of expert opinion, was “legally sterile” and Mr Shatter’s complaints appeared to concern its publication and later political consequences, the judge said.

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