An incident between a District Court judge and a solicitor at the weekend that led to a number of other solicitors leaving court in protest at the judge's treatment of their colleague will come before the High Court today.
Solicitor Yvonne Bambury complained to the president of the High Court, Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan, on Saturday about her treatment by Judge Patrick Brady when she had sought to adjourn a bail application for a client.
She was unable to deal with the cases of two other clients, she said, because she had been removed from court on the orders of the judge.
Arising from this Ms Bambury brought a High Court challenge to the legality of the detention of three of her clients. The High Court granted bail to one of those clients, but a second remains in custody pending the outcome of proceedings today.
A third client, whose bail application Ms Bambury had earlier sought to adjourn until today was granted bail by Judge Brady after Ms Bambury had been removed from the court on his order.