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Why did Noonan agree to pay legal costs?

  • 03-06-2011 11:55am
    #1
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,686 ✭✭✭✭
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    This investment company withdrew their legal action against the government and Noonan has agreed to pay "a sum of money" towards their legal costs. This makes us look like a real soft touch and why is the amount of the sum not disclosed?


    Senior Counsel for the firm John Rogers said the
    Minister for Finance had agreed to pay Abadi
    and company a sum of money in respect of its
    legal costs.

    www.rte.ie/news/2011/0603/aib.html


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  • #2
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    ah, bribery.

    put some fancy terms on it and you can get away with it in broad daylight


  • #3
    20Cent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,941 ✭✭✭20Cent


    They mustn't have Hepatitis C

    Good question though why is the cost not published, why did he agree to pay some of it?


  • #4
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    He was trying to make one of the two jump and this was his carrot.

    The other party will likely lose the case and get no legal fees now as if it goes to court with one of the two having stepped down then the court is more likely to favor the state in the outcome of any case.

    They probably feared they might have some kind of case if they two went to court but by getting one to step down, it makes the other business need to reconsider their position given they are going it alone now.


  • #5
    MoodRacer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭MoodRacer


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    This investment company withdrew their legal action against the government and Noonan has agreed to pay "a sum of money" towards their legal costs. This makes us look like a real soft touch and why is the amount of the sum not disclosed?





    www.rte.ie/news/2011/0603/aib.html

    On some of the radio news bulletins today the media were proclaiming a major victory for the government........yeah right. Bought off with 30 pieces of silver. Judas noonan couldnt negotiate his dinner never mind bond holders or IMF or ECB.


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