Mike Garde is a South African born theologian and an expert on cults.
[1][5][6][7] In July 2012, Mr Justice Gerard Hogan ordered Garde and Sunday World journalist Nicola Tallant to appear in United States District Court for the District of Colorado to give evidence in Cornec v. Morrice and Others (2012) and adjourned for a month to allow them to apply the orders to be set aside.
[8][9] In September 2012, the Irish High Court ruled that Garde and Nicola Tallant did not have to give evidence.
Mr Justice Gerard Hogan set aside orders saying "if, as she maintains, Mr Quinn holds unorthodox religious views and is effectively the leader of a religious cult which has used psychological techniques as a means of controlling gullible adherents, the media are entitled to educate public opinion in this regard.
"[10][11][12][13] In September 2018, it was reported that defamation proceedings were issued against Random House Group by Paul Tweed over a suggestion in the Dan Brown book Origin that a cult-monitoring group in Ireland took money to fight a Catholic sect.