Alan Haugh BL was a practicing barrister, specialising in employment and industrial relations law, until his appointment as Deputy Chairman of the Labour Court in September 2015. Alan was previously Head of Employment Law at IBEC, Legal Adviser to NERA, and a Senior Associate at A&L Goodbody. He advised the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation during the course of the drafting of the Workplace Relations Act 2015.
This matter came before the Court of Appeal by way of an appeal brought on behalf of National University of Ireland Galway (‘the Respondent’) against a decision of the High Court (Baker J) to accede to Professor Nasheuer’s (‘the Applicant’) application for an interlocutory injunction to restrain an investigation by an external consultant, appointed by the Respondent, into allegations of bullying and harassment against him. The High Court found that Applicant had made out a serious case to be tried of objective bias on the part of the external investigator. Irvine J gave judgment on behalf of the Court of Appeal on 21 March 2018.
Factual Background ⚓︎
In April 2014 a member of the Respondent’s staff (‘the Complainant’) submitted
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