Costs relate to emergency application by former Stardust manager challenging decision of Dublin city coroner
Eamon Butterly argued the State could pay the families' legal fees for the High Court action. Photograph: Colin Keegan / Collins DublinEamon Butterly has been ordered to pay the legal costs of the families of the 47 who died in the 1981 Stardust nightclub fire for their representation at his failed last ditch High Court attempt to prevent an inquest jury bringing in its unlawful killing verdict.
In his decision, which was not published until after the inquest verdict, Mr Justice O’Connor refused Mr Butterly’s application for both leave to bring the challenge and for the inquest to be put on hold pending the outcome of the challenge.From kingmaker to spectator: how Rupert Murdoch was consigned to the sidelines at Trump conventionYour work questions answered: ‘I have ADHD and so work from home a lot.
While this means it is not formally on notice to a respondent or to third parties, the families’ lawyers had been alerted when the coroner adjourned the inquest to allow the High Court application to take place. As a result, they attended the High Court hearing. “The submission for the applicant that a direction of the court would have afforded an opportunity for to prepare for the resistance of the families does not withstand scrutiny”, the judge said.
“The applicant and the court acquiesced to the making of submissions by counsel for the families,” he said.
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