Update 3.15pm:Former Justice Minister Alan Shatter has welcomed the judgement delivered by the Court of Appeal today.
In a statement this afternoon he said the successful outcome was a huge relief to him.
He said the findings and conclusions of the Guerin Report did enormous damage to his good name and reputation and cost him his position as Justice Minister and his Dáil seat.
The statement also goes on to thank the Judges of the Court of Appeal, his legal team, his family and close friends.
Update 10.45pm: Alan Shatter has won his appeal over a failed High Court challenge to parts of the Guerin report that criticised his handling of whistleblower complaints.
All three judges of the Court of Appeal agreed that the former Minister for Justice should have been given an opportunity to put his side forward.
The Guerin report, which was published in May 2014, was highly critical of the way Alan Shatter handled allegations of Garda misconduct in the Cavan/Monaghan division. They were made by whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe.
Sean Guerin, the SC who carried out the report, criticised the then Minister for Justice for failing to properly investigate the allegations and for accepting, without question, the Garda position
Mr. Shatter claimed its findings caused him to resign his ministerial post the next day.
Earlier this year, he appealed a failed High Court action to quash the critical parts of the report, and the judges ruled in his favour this morning.
Mr. Justice Sean Ryan said his constitutional rights were breached by the defective procedure adopted.
The case will return to court later this month to decide on an appropriate remedy for Mr. Shatter.
Earlier: A judgement is due later this morning on Alan Shatter’s appeal against a High Court decision not to quash certain parts of the Guerin report.
The report was highly critical of the way the former Minister for Justice handled allegations of Garda misconduct in the Cavan/Monaghan division.
Alan Shatter stepped down as Minister for Justice on May 7th 2014 – the day after the Guerin report found he failed to properly investigate Sergeant Maurice McCabe’s allegations of corruption and malpractice in Cavan/Monaghan.
A year later, he challenged its findings on the basis he wasn’t given a chance to put forward his side of the story, but the High Court dismissed his arguments.
One year one from that, the O’Higgins Commission of Inquiry cleared him of any wrongdoing and it wasn’t long before his case ended up in the Court of Appeal.
Again he argued he had a right to be heard, that simple fairness demanded it and a serious injustice had befallen him and damaged his good name and livelihood. He used the findings of the O’Higgins inquiry as proof he did nothing wrong.
A judgement on his appeal is due to be made later this morning.
