Judge rules that documents given to the ODCE from the FAI are legally privileged

A High Court judge has ruled that extracts of documents the FAI has given to the ODCE are covered by professional legal privilege and cannot be used as part of the probe into certain matters concerning the association.

In a motion, brought under the 2014 Companies Act, the ODCE asked the High Court to determine if certain parts of documents provided to it by the FAI and its auditors Deloitte Ireland LLP are legally privileged.