Privilege claim may cool reporting on INM saga
If INM wins its review, the ODCE application won't make it to the starting blocks. Even if INM loses, the watchdog's application will be pushed back to June at the earliest
Independent News and Media (INM) left court yesterday with room to breathe as the corporate watchdog's bid to appoint High Court inspectors got kicked to touch.
A separate ruling about privilege may temporarily stem the flow of damaging media leaks about the company,former chairman Leslie Buckley and its main shareholder Denis O'Brien.
Last month, the head of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) Ian Drennan filed an affidavit setting outallegations of data breaches involving 19 people, including barristers acting for the Moriarty Tribunal, former INM executives and former INM journalists.
