Legal Costs

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Mason Hayes & Curran partners Gerard Kelly and Gearoid Carey explore recent case law on the allocation of costs in civil litigation. The Court of Appeal recently, in Word Perfect Translation Services Ltd v Minster for Public Expenditure and Reform [2023] IECA 189, addressed a costs order made in

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The District Court scale of costs has been updated for the first time since 2014, with increases of at least five per cent across the board. The District Court (Costs) Rules 2023 set out a new schedule of costs for solicitors in various categories of civil proceedings, as well as briefing fees for c

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Around €1.1 million in unpaid barristers' fees has been recovered through The Bar of Ireland's in-house fee recovery service since its launch less than three years ago. Over 175 members of the Law Library are now "actively using" the Bar's practice support and fee recovery service for assistanc

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A major new report jointly commissioned by the Law Society of Ireland and The Bar of Ireland has recommended a system of non-binding guidelines for legal practitioners as the best means of controlling costs while ensuring fair and equal access to justice. The independent report was produced by EY an

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The State has been ordered to pay 50 per cent of costs in a High Court case it won outright because it did not seek to have an eligibility point dealt with as a preliminary issue. In a judgment published last week, Mr Justice Michael Twomey criticised the State for allowing the case to go on trial o

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William Fry partner Richard Breen examines a recent High Court judgment which departed from the normal measure of costs. In a recent ex tempore judgment in a landlord and tenant dispute (Dipcot Holdings Ltd v Euro General Unreported, ex tempore, High Court, O’Hanlon J., 28 June 2021) the High

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