As examinerships go, it went to the wire. The 100-day statutory deadline had passed. Fuelled by a bitter internecine battle between two of the company’s shareholders, the future of the insolvent Cork tech start-up Altada hung in the balance. Yesterday afternoon, in the cramped confines of Court 21, Mr Justice Robert Haughton delivered a lengthy judgment in the High Court that will ensure the firm lives to fight another day. He approved proposals put forward by examiner Joseph Walsh to save the troubled company that had launched with aplomb two years ago, winning the accolade of ‘Tech Start-Up of the…

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