The Irish courts have jurisdiction to decide a dispute over an arrested motor pleasure boat bought for more than 1.2m by a company of an Irish-born tax lawyer, a High Court judge has ruled.
The M.V. Connoisseur was arrested last August on foot of a High Court order and remains moored in Dun Laoghaire port.
The 17.29-metre vessel was built in 2017 and was bought for commercial purposes for some 1.26m by Conway Club Limited (CCL), incorporated in early 2017, with registered offices in London.
CCL is legally and beneficially owned by Kevin Conway, a tax lawyer who is Irish born but an English resident for more than 20 years, Mr Justice Denis McDonald said.
Mr Conway was a director of CCL up to November 6, 2017, not long after he was adjudicated…
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