Hain: Larkin 'rejected settlement bids'

Northern Ireland Attorney General John Larkin twice rejected attempts to settle his High Court action against Peter Hain before they agreed to halt the proceedings in advance of a full hearing, the former Secretary of State has claimed.

Mr Hain said he will disclose a “full and trenchant” account of the case in the paperback edition of his memoirs, Outside In, which are due to be published at the end of the month.