Ciara Quinn, Colette Quinn, Brenda Quinn, Aoife Quinn, Seán Quinn Junior and Patricia Quinn have been refused a direct appeal to the Supreme Court, in a determination delivered on 29 July 2015.
Their case is against Anglo Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited (in Special Liquidation) and Kieran Wallace. They wanted to appeal a High Court judgment of 20 May 2015, in which Mr Justice Haughton refused their motion to amend their statement of claim.
That motion followed a Supreme Court judgment of 27 March 2015. It found they did not have standing to rely on section 60 of the Companies Act 1963 and the EU Market Abuse Regulations. They said the judgment suggested they could plead a separate claim that the security and guarantees were unenforceable.
The applicants did not argue that the appeal was a matter of general public importance. They said it was in the interests of justice for the Supreme Court to hear it directly, to save time and cost. The respondents opposed this.
The Supreme Court said the motion was procedural, and that there was well-established law on the issue. It found no exceptional circumstances, and said this was the type of appeal the Court of Appeal should hear.