Summary: <a href="http://www.alanshatter.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Alan Shatter</a> became minister of justice in 2011. Brian Purcell, his secretary general, was <a href="http://www.merrionstreet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Final-Redacted-Guerin-Report1.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">judged to be running a grossly incompetent department</a>. Shatter extravagantly complained that the Guerin Report was a breach of his human rights and <a href="http://www.thejournal.ie/guerin-report-alan-shatter-wants-human-rights-1565597-Jul2014/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">called on the Human Rights and Equality Commission</a> to investigate the process, and he <a href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/shatter-loses-legal-challenge-over-guerin-report-331973.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">humiliatingly lost a case</a> challenging the findings of the Guerin Report.<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/bash_rich" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Bashir Otukoya</a> is a PhD candidate at Sutherland School of Law at UCD.<br>
