2015-11-17
"Medieval laws" should not be used to dismiss action over Esat Digifone licence, court hears
The High Court heard a claim that Denis O'Brien's Esat Digifone consortium won a 1996 mobile phone licence by bribing Minister Michael Lowry. The claim is funded by Persona Digital Telephony, Sigma Wireless Networks and Harbour Litigation Funding. The State argues the funding arrangement breaches champerty law, which forbids unrelated third…