THERE will be no public inquiry into the Les Pas deal.

The States were told yesterday that concerns about costs and a question over any real potential benefit from an inquiry had led the Policy and Resources Committee to shelve their proposal for a full investigation into the legal claim of Les Pas and the following settlement.

The inquiry could cost up to £3 million, according to P & R, and could take several years to complete.Last year States Members agreed to give Les Pas Holdings an area of prime waterfront land in exchange for their dropping all claim to the St Helier foreshore.

The claim arose from Advocate Richard Falle’s title of Seigneur de la Fief de la Fosse and could have meant that the St Helier foreshore legally belonged to him.The States, sitting in camera, decided to settle the case rather than battle it out in court and risk losing hundreds of millions of pounds.

At the time, a full inquiry into just what had happened was promised by P & R.