Justice Seamus Woulfe sits with judge who subjected him to 'upsetting and traumatic' ordeal

It was his first public hearing since, as a result of the 'golfgate' controversy, Mr Justice Seamus Woulfe was told he would not be listed to sit in the court until February 2021.

It emerged from letters published in November  that Mr Justice Seamus Woulfe raised a question as to whether his colleagues may have pre-judged him before he had an opportunity to explain himself. File photo

Mr Justice Seamus Woulfe sat today with Mr Justice George Birmingham, one of the judges he has accused of subjecting him to an "upsetting and traumatic" ordeal following the 'golfgate' controversy last year.

Mr Justice Woulfe was sitting for the first time as a judge in the three-judge Court of Appeal alongside Mr Justice Birmingham and Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy. It was his first public hearing since Chief Justice Frank Clarke told him last November that, as a result of his attending a golf event that the chief justice felt had breached public guidelines to prevent the spread of Covid-19, he would not be listed to sit until February 2021.