Professor Graham Butler:

Of course, we do not have an exact and perfect case to analyse but subsequent developments like the ICJ opinion the Deputy has mentioned, could, one might argue, give more weight to an Irish argument that the public policy exception could be used. At the same time, just because we have had no perfect example in the past does not mean we cannot learn from the lessons along the way in the case law, and all the case law of the court so far gives precedent for all the steps going forward and gives arguments to both sides.