Government agrees to 15 'principles' for dealing with legal action against the State

Attorney General Rossa Fanning. File picture: Conor McCabe

The Government has agreed to a new set of 15 principles that will dictate how it acts when legal action is taken against the State.

These new principles will call on the State to “act honestly”, “not to take advantage of less well-resourced litigants” and to “apologise where the State has acted unlawfully”.