Taxpayer, who must foot bill of successful parties, was big financial loser of Michelle Hayes’s failed action - judge
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However, Ms Hayes then asked that the court also award the costs she had incurred in bringing the case. So long as these judicial review cases are required to be taken in the High Court, where costs for a hearing can be €50,000/€100,000 or more, rather than say the District Court, with costs of €500/€1,000, this is a very significant financial privilege, he added.
It also highlighted that if legal practitioners like Ms Hayes were, as a general rule, to be paid hundreds of thousands of euro by the taxpayer for bringing unmeritorious environmental/planning cases in the High Court, whether on their own behalf or on behalf of third-party applicants, the primary winners would be lawyers, all at the expense of the taxpayer, he said.
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