The Supreme Court of Ireland will hear an appeal from Bewley's Café Grafton Street (BCGS) Ltd regarding the ownership of six windows in their premises. The case involves a dispute between BCGS and its landlord, RGRE, over whether the windows are tenant's fixtures or landlord's property. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal, citing the complexity of the legal issues and the public interest in the outcome.
all six of the windows belong to the landlord. A dissenting judgment found that two of the windows were owned by Bewley’s and the other four were “tenant’s fixtures”. That decision differed from a 2023 High Court decision that only four of the windows belonged to RGRE while the other two were the property of the tenant, Bewley’s Café Grafton Street Ltd and its subsidiary Bewley’s Ltd.
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