A High Court judge is considering whether to throw out a case by businessman Declan Ganley over a Covid-19 prohibition on religious worship as the restrictions have now lapsed.
Mr Justice Charles Meenan has said he sees no point in fixing a hearing date for the action as he considered it to be moot now.
However, he agreed to receive submissions from both sides on whether the case should continue regardless.
The matter will return to court “for mention” on June 22nd where he is expected to issue his ruling.
The case was first taken last November. In December, the question of mootness was raised when the ban on public worship was briefly ended, but the case was allowed to continue.
Counsel for Mr Ganley said the State then took some four months to put in its evidence by which time the regulations which replaced the ones initially challenged had also lapsed.
There is no guarantee there will not be further lockdowns and Mr Ganley has been very prejudiced by how the State has gone about the litigation, he added.
