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High Court decision is overturned

The court of appeal judgment is to be given on Wednesday.

My knowledge of the case is purely based on what I've read in the two judgments, and it's a while since I read them in full, but from what I can recall the Deputy Ombudsman made a recommendation, which was then reviewed by the Ombudsman for the purposes of final determination. The Davy case was...

Here's the relevant part of the Supreme Court decision. "Discussion and decision An object of the Act is that complaints be dealt with informally and expeditiously. The Act does not prescribe the procedures to be followed by the Ombudsman. Section 57BF empowers the Council to make regulations...

The appeal was heard recently so hopefully the judgment will be delivered soon

PTSB's appeal has been withdrawn

Is your argument that the FSO should never appeal a decision of the High Court? That would put it in a somewhat invidious position

Most of the institutions that pay the levy were not bailed out, and the bailout happened years ago at this stage. Your comment about taxpayers' money was a red herring; the FSO has as much right to appeal as anyone else, and indeed as the Millars had to appeal its original decision

Brendan has outlined the commercial implications of Millar, which are potentially huge. There are also serious procedural and jurisdictional implications for the FSO's office, so I think it makes sense that they appealed the judgment. For clarity if nothing else. My own gut feeling is that the...

If he got it right then won't his decision be upheld by the court of appeal?

Mr Hayes was the junior minister at the Dept of Finance until the recent Euro elections. I wonder was he as concerned about this issue when he might have been able to have had some influence?

It seems from looking at the thread over on Boards that the FSO has upheld some of the complaints about the danske offsets.