Michael Fingleton’s lawyers submitted that a Court of Appeal decision said the case against him had significantly narrowed
Michael Fingleton, acting through his wife and son under their powers of attorney due to his severe ill health, is asking the High Court to find that many of the allegations against him can no longer stand. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times
That court, in ruling last May that Mr Fingleton had not established the civil case against him would be unfair, said the IBRC, which took over the failed lender in 2011, had narrowed its 2012 claim from more than €6 billion to about €290 million. The Supreme Court will this week consider Mr Fingleton’s request for a further appeal against the Court of Appeal’s central decision in that ruling: that he did not establish a clear injustice in asking him to defend the proceedings.
This formulation of a “very broad” case of systemic mismanagement that is not time-limited “cannot be permitted to proceed”, he told the court.