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 7, 2014 – the day after the Guerin report found that 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 was not 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.

He later he argued in the Court of Appeal that 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 that he did nothing wrong.

A judgement on his appeal is due to be made later this morning.