Cosgrave and Kennedy gain approval to challenge rezoning-payments trials

The High Court has today granted permission to former Fine Gael politician Liam Cosgrave and businessman Jim Kennedy to bring a legal challenge aimed at stopping their trials in connection with alleged corrupt payments in relation to rezoning of lands in Carrickmines in Dublin in the 1990s.

In separate proceedings, both are seeking orders preventing their trials on corruption charges, set down for hearing at Dublin Circuit Court next October, from going ahead on grounds including that their constitutional rights have been breached and that they cannot get a fair trial.