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Shane Phelan

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Legal Affairs Editor at Irish Independent

Journalist. Legal Affairs Editor with the Irish Independent. Dad, Gaelic football fan and cyclist. Views my own

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  • Former millionaire Philip Marley to be jailed for three years over property fraud

    3 weeks ago | independent.ie | Shane Phelan

    Former millionaire Philip Marley to be jailed for three years over property fraudPhilip Marley. Photo: Collins CourtsA flamboyant former millionaire is to be jailed for three years for orchestrating a “planned and premeditated” property fraud in which more than €250,000 was misappropriated. Philip Marley is expected to begin the sentence later this month after being given a fortnight to get some personal affairs in order.

  • New spying claims bring fresh twist to Rippling-Deel corporate espionage dispute

    3 weeks ago | independent.ie | Shane Phelan

    Deel has now claimed Rippling had its own “spy” who “infiltrated Deel’s customer platform by fraudulent means and pilfered the company’s most valuable proprietary assets”A legal dispute between warring HR software giants, centring on claims one used an Irish “spy” to steal trade secrets from the other, has taken a fresh twist.

  • Judge orders that Gerry Adams be paid half of his €100,000 defamation award while BBC considers appeal

    3 weeks ago | independent.ie | Shane Phelan

    Judge orders that Gerry Adams be paid half of his €100,000 defamation award while BBC considers appealFormer Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA. A High Court judge has ordered the BBC to pay Gerry Adams €50,000 – half of his landmark €100,000 defamation award – while the corporation considers mounting an appeal. Mr Justice Alexander Owens also told the broadcaster to immediately pay €250,000 to Mr Adams’ legal team.

  • Gerry Adams: BBC expected to appeal Spotlight defamation finding as legal bill set to hit €3m

    4 weeks ago | sundayworld.com | Shane Phelan

    HUGE PAY-OUT | The former Sinn Féin president was awarded €100,000 in damages over the contents of a BBC Spotlight programme and BBC website article which a jury found meant he had sanctioned and approved the murder of informer Denis Donaldson. Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams outside the High Court in Dublin after he was awarded €100,000 in damages against the BBC.

  • Judge accused Gerry Adams’s barrister of ‘barracking’ witness - then apologised for making criticism

    4 weeks ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Shane Phelan

    The judge in the Gerry Adams defamation trial accused one of the former Sinn Féin leader’s barristers of barracking a witness – but later apologised to the lawyer for being “bad-tempered” with him. Mr Justice Alexander Owens criticised part of Tom Hogan SC’s cross examination of Jennifer O’Leary, the BBC Spotlight reporter in the “Spy In the IRA” programme that Mr Adams claimed defamed him.

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