Amnesty International Ireland has welcomed the High Court’s quashing of a demand by the Standards in Public Office (Sipo) Commission that it return a € 137,000 donation from a foundation funded by financier and philanthropist George Soros.

In the settlement announced at the High Court on Tuesday, Sipo accepted the process leading to the decision it made in November 2017 to order the return of the funds was “procedurally flawed”.