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Tens of thousands of euro to be publicly burned in performance art installation in Dublin tomorrow

May 16, 2012 by namawinelake

If you have a few hours tomorrow morning and want to witness an unusual piece of  performance art, why not go down to Court 4 at the High Court at 10.45am where NAMA will begin its case against the Information Commissioner – to be precise, the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information –  who last year designated NAMA a “public authority” which was subject to environmental information requests. NAMA was unhappy with the ruling and will tomorrow commence its action at the High Court to have the ruling overturned. Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns is set to be the host for the performance as tens of thousands of euro – your euro – will be spent on the legal battle between two state agencies, the Information Commissioner who wants to promote transparency and NAMA who resists such efforts.

Up to now NAMA has hidden behind the confidentiality terms imposed on the Agency by the NAMA Act; “we’re sorry, we’d love to share that information with you, but alas the NAMA Act prevents us from so doing”. But now that the Information Commissioner has ruled that NAMA is subject to environmental information requests, the Agency seems eager to resist lawful adjudication, which might give us all a better insight into the workings of the Agency.

For some reason the Courts Service refuses to place details of the case on its website but the case reference is 2011 357 MCA. Journalist Gavin Sheridan is the crusader who succeeded last year in having the Information Commissioner, Emily O’Reilly adjudicate that NAMA was a public authority, and although he is not a party to these proceedings, no doubt he will keep us informed of the progress and outcome of the case on thestory.ie. Earlier this year, the NAMA CEO didn’t want to answer questions about the rationale for spending tens of thousands of taxpayers’ money to defend a transparency ruling by another state agency, saying that the matter was before the courts. I don’t think he will escape so lightly when the matter is next raised at official levels! There is background to the case on thestory.ie here and here.

UPDATE (1): 18th May, 2012. Gavin Sheridan from thestory.ie reports that the case was not heard yesterday, seemingly due to lack of time, but is set to be heard this morning, again in Court 4 at 10.45am. You can follow Gavin on Twitter here, and it is hoped there will be tweet updates throughout the case.

UPDATE (2): 18th May, 2012. Gavin Sheridan has tweeted to say the case has been put back “to the end of July” because a judge was not available today.

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  1. on May 16, 2012 at 8:11 pm shinnylites

    Four Courts, yeah? Is it certain that we can go in to the chamber? sorry I’ve not been in it before


    • on May 16, 2012 at 8:15 pm namawinelake

      @shinnylites, yes the Four Courts. Certain hearings are held in private or in-camera but there is nothing flagged about this case which would suggest any of it will be held in private.


  2. on May 16, 2012 at 8:27 pm jr

    Not to mention another (independent) arm of the state adjudicating on it….
    If its before the President it will be in Court 4.


  3. on May 17, 2012 at 10:21 am Kieran Sullivan

    A Summons to Court by NAMA seems to be the new ASBO.

    Both were seen by the authorities as something to put manners on adolescent boys who misbehave with the property of others.

    Now, they’ve both became just another macho badge of honour.

    Coz in fairness, what property developer worth his salt is NOT being pursued by NAMA at the moment.

    And now, the Government boys are getting in on the act.


  4. on May 17, 2012 at 12:50 pm shinnylites

    Quick heads up for anyone here checking in on this. It isn’t going ahead to possibly 2pm, or could be moved to tmrw, is what the clerk told me this morning.


    • on May 17, 2012 at 12:55 pm namawinelake

      @shinnylites, many thanks. I see that the man behind thestory.ie, Gavin Sheridan is tweeting progress of the case. You can see what he has to say or follow him at

      https://twitter.com/#!/gavinsblog


      • on May 17, 2012 at 1:05 pm shinnylites

        Ah cheers for that, and now that I see his picture on twitter I think I actually saw Gavin Sheridan himself in the courtroom this morning.. lol. well I can definitely agree with him about the lack of displays, very disorderly, there were no announcements as to what time it would be going ahead at, nothing to tell us it was delayed, you just had to seek out the clerk or registrar to find out, literally all word of mouth! Bizarre way to run a high court you would imagine.



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