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Bank of Ireland can make offer to woman who claims it gave ATM data to her 'stalker’ father

Lawyers for the woman have said that the financial data was used as an ‘instrument of oppression’

Ms Justice Siobhan Phelan ruled that Bank of Ireland was permitted to make a tender offer of payment

Bank of Ireland has been granted leave by the High Court to make a settlement offer, without any admission of liability, to a woman who alleges that it allowed her estranged father to stalk her using confidential banking data.

In a judgment delivered today, Ms Justice Siobhan Phelan ruled that Bank of Ireland was permitted to make a tender offer of payment but directed that any offer made will not take effect until the conclusion ...