Denis O’Brien funding case heard in High Court

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Denis O’Brien’s legal funding case was heard at the High Court on 19 November 2015, concerning whether Harbour Litigation Funding could fund a claim involving Persona Digital Telephony and Sigma Wireless Networks.

The arrangement would give Harbour part of any successful proceeds, but the State argued that Irish champerty law prohibited it.

Persona claims that Mr O’Brien’s Esat Digifone consortium won a 1996 mobile licence competition by bribing Michael Lowry, which is denied.