An attempt to prevent publication of the report of the Independent Monitoring Commission in Parliament tomorrow has been thrown out by the High Court in Belfast.
Lawyers for Mr Thomas Tolan, one of four west Belfast men charged with the attempted kidnapping of republican dissident Bobby Tohill from a city centre pub in February, had claimed that the report would prejudice his trial, in an application for a judicial review.
Counsel for the IMC, said the Commission was immune to the legal challenge as it was constituted as an international body, not a public authority.
Lord Justice Campbell and Mr Justice Higgins declined to allow the application for a judicial review by preventing publication of the report. They said that because of the extreme urgency of the case they had given their judgment immediately and would set out the reasons as soon as possible.