Investigators defend action in Clerys case

A decision by inspectors investigating the collective redundancies of 460 Clerys’ workers to enter the offices of D2 Private Ltd was made legitimately and in the public interest following the “traumatic” redundancies, the High Court has been told.

Shane Murphy, counsel for the inspectors, urged the court not to halt the continuing investigation by the inspectors, which involved them taking from the offices documents and a computer linked to the store’s takeover in June 2015.

The workers lost their jobs on June 12, 2015, hours after Clerys was sold to a joint venture, Natrium by its previous owners, the US Gordon Brothers group.