Lawlor spends another day at tribunal
Liam Lawlor has spent another day in the witness box at the Planning Tribunal.
He's been asked to see whether his London solicitor is prepared to travel to Ireland to answer questions relating to his client's finances.
Lawlor told senior counsel Des O'Neill he could take forever if he wanted to, to quiz him about his financial affairs.
The sticking point was a company called Zatecka based in Prague, which was set up by Mr Lawlor with the help of a Jersey-based solicitor, Nicholas Morgan.
The tribunal contends that Mr Lawlor and Zatecka are one and the same, and accuses Mr Lawlor of setting up the company to make himself a consultant and loan himself money from it to facilitate and disguise certain financial and business deals.
Tribunal lawyers claim a £100,000 Zatecka invoice was satisfied by Liam Lawlor, with £57,000 then being taken from his London solicitors Seddons' client account, and lodged in his current account in Ireland.
However, there's a discrepancy in Seddons' documents relating to this, and Mr Lawlor has been unable to explain it.
The Tribunal now wants Anthony Seddon to travel to Ireland, so he can be questioned directly by them.
