A previous court order against Co Dublin animal welfare activist was lifted by consent in the High Court yesterday.
Last January, following the hearing of an appeal taken by Mr Brendan Price, of Clochan, Tobergregan, Garristown, Co Dublin, against a Circuit Court order, the High Court restrained him from communicating with Ms Irene Shirley, chairwoman of Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The High Court also reduced an award made by the Circuit Court to Ms Shirley from £1,000 to £250 and said Mr Price ought to pay Ms Shirley's Circuit Court legal costs. No order was made on High Court costs.
When the case came before Mrs Justice McGuinness yesterday, a solicitor for Ms Shirley said it had been agreed the previous order would be vacated.
During the hearing of the Circuit Court appeal by the High Court in January, Mr Justice Morris said it was perhaps because of Mr Price's deep commitment to the organisation that he found himself before the court.
Counsel for Ms Shirley, a legal executive with a Dublin firm of solicitors, said proceedings had been brought by his client in the Circuit Court arising out of a succession of phone calls made over eight days in May 1994 to her place of work.