State to fight Activist’s challenge to judge’s appointment

The State is to contest a Supreme Court challenge taken by businessman and anti-eviction activist Jerry Beades to the appointment of Justice Peter Kelly as president of the High Court.

Mr Beades claims Judge Kelly should not have been nominated for appointment by the Government as he was unfit to assume the position.

Mr Beades,of Richmond Avenue, Fairview, Dublin, has claimed in an affidavit that, when adjudicating matters in relation to Mr Beades, Mr Justice Kelly did so in an allegedly biased manner.