The KRW Law statement described the complaint as “malicious, selective and edits significant portions of messages sent and received over a three-month period which deprived the Commissioner of the opportunity to appropriately assess whether the threshold for initiating a complaint procedure had been met”.
“The complainant acknowledges that she has been advised by unknown and unnamed advisor(s) in the preparation of her complaint.”
The KRW Law statement added that JJ Magee had lodged a 38-page rebuttal to a complaint which had been lodged with the NI Local Government Commissioner for Standards.
The statement also said that Magee did not alert Sinn Féin to the complaint as he believed there was no substance to it and that it would be quickly resolved once all the facts were provided.
It added that their client looks forward to “having his good name restored”.
The office of the Northern Ireland Local Government Commissioner for Standards said they received a report of a potential breach of the code of conduct and that “the allegation is now under investigation”.
