Former Ireland rugby international Slattery can maintain legal challenge to site sale, court rules
FORMER Ireland rugby international Fergus Slattery can maintain a legal question mark over the sale of a south Dublin house site which is part of a dispute between him and his former financial adviser, Gerry McCoy, following a High Court ruling.
Mr McCoy’s wife, Deborah, had claimed Mr Slattery did not have a proper claim over a site next to her family home at Taney Park, Dundrum, which could justify his registering of the legal question mark called a “lis pendens”. This warns prospective purchasers of the site of a legal claim over the land. She wanted the court to order that the lis pendens be vacated so the site could be sold.
Mr Justice Tony O’Connor dismissed Ms McCoy’s application yesterday.
The case centred on part of the land forming what was originally the full McCoy home property at Taney Park. Half of the land, which has planning permission for another house, was used as part-security for an Ulster Bank loan which became part of a deal between Mr Slattery and Mr McCoy to buy an investment property in Mount Merrion in 2007.
This property was Owenstown House, which was leased to Mr McCoy’s failed investment firm, Asset Management Trust.