After a one-day pre-trial hearing, Fiona Holmes, an award-winning Irish children’s author, wished to set the record straight. She had not been sexually harassed by an education consultant hired by her former publisher CJ Fallon, best known for producing school textbooks. This was communicated in correspondence to the court which offered assurances in a recent ruling that it had not believed any such incorrect allegation had been made by Holmes in the case. That potential mix-up dealt with, the court could get on to more pressing matters – like ruling on what documents should be discovered between the parties. In other words,…