High Court hears third-party funding case over mobile licence

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The High Court heard a second day of submissions on 18 November 2015 in an application concerning third-party funding for a damages claim over a mobile phone licence.

Persona Digital Telephony and Sigma Wireless Networks are seeking approval of an agreement backed by Harbour Litigation Funding, in proceedings involving Denis O'Brien, Michael Lowry and the Irish State. Counsel for Persona argued that the law of champerty should be reconsidered alongside the constitutional right of access to the courts. The case was continuing.