Challenge to tribunals' findings.

political analyst · 19-04-2024 12:56pm #1

The findings that some tribunals of inquiry made in the 1980s - the one of 'probable arson' about the Stardust fire and the one made against Joanne Hayes in the Kerry Babies case - have since been removed by amendment to the public record.

Was there no means of challenging those tribunals' findings in the courts in the 1980s and, if there was, then why was no case taken?

22-04-2024 8:37am

Costs, and perhaps the belief at the time that the findings of the tribunal were correct.

Claw Hammer · 22-04-2024 2:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058347585/challenge-to-tribunals-findings

There is still no means of challenging the findings of a Tribunal.

political analyst · 22-04-2024 4:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122049662#Comment_122049662

Not true.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/tribunal-finding-that-businessmen-bribed-ray-burke-quashed-1.2995189

Claw Hammer · 24-04-2024 12:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122050001#Comment_122050001

You can challenge the means by which the finding was made, not the finding itself. That is what happened in the case you have referenced.

political analyst · 24-04-2024 4:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122056625#Comment_122056625

The point is that the finding in the case that I cited was quashed. That's what I meant by a challenge to the finding.

Claw Hammer · 24-04-2024 5:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122057829#Comment_122057829

It wasn't substituted by another finding. That's what I meant by a challenge to a finding. There is no reason why the same finding couldn't be made by the same tribunal again, if it got its act together.

Challenge to tribunals' findings.

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