Legal
Dermot Desmond succeeds in excluding Joseph Stiglitz evidence from Panama Papers defamation case
Mr Justice Alexander Owens said use of corporate structures to avoid paying tax and hide wealth were within ‘common knowledge’ and therefore his evidence was not necessary
Dermot Desmond has succeeded in having evidence from a Nobel laureate economist excluded from his long-running defamation case against the Irish Times.
The businessman, who is suing the newspaper over an article on the so-called Panama Papers, had argued that Joseph Stiglitz’s evidence was inadmissible because it was irrelevant and “blatantly partial”.
Mr Justice Alexander Owens agreed with part of his case and said that potential public interest from information on offshore tax havens were ...
