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Landlord and tenant 2026_IEHC_626

Verbenagrove Ltd v. Evans and Griffin

Supplemental costs judgment in landlord and tenant proceedings. The tenant received appeal costs and 40% of Circuit Court costs, with the repairs/set-off issue discounted.

  • Allocation of costs
  • Statutory occupation
  • Forfeiture notice
  • Peaceable re-entry
  • Equitable set-off
  • Vat invoices
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Defamation [2026] IEHC 179

People Centre, INC [D/B/A Rippling] and Anor v O'Brien and Ors [No. 2] (Approved)

People Centre, INC [D/B/A Rippling] and Anor v O'Brien and Ors [No. 2] (Approved) [2026] IEHC 179 (20 March 2026)

The High Court partly struck out a defamation claim, removing one pleaded paragraph but leaving contextual and costs-related pleas in place.

  • Striking out pleadings
  • Defamatory meaning
  • Jus tertii
  • Costs as special damages
  • Concurrent wrongdoers
  • Protected disclosures
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Child law [2026] IEHC 88

Child and Family Agency v Guardian Ad Litem and Anor (Approved)

Child and Family Agency v Guardian Ad Litem and Anor (Approved) [2026] IEHC 88 (25 February 2026)

The High Court granted a protective costs order to a guardian ad litem in judicial review proceedings challenging District Court child-care orders.

  • Protective costs orders
  • Judicial review
  • Child care proceedings
  • Guardian ad litem
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Public interest litigation
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Administrative law [2025] IEHC 581

M [A Minor] v Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade & Anor (Approved)

M [A Minor] v Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade & Anor (Approved) [2025] IEHC 581 (03 November 2025)

High Court costs ruling in moot judicial review over foreign birth registration delay; each party bore its own costs because the decision was made in ordinary course.

  • Mootness
  • Costs in moot proceedings
  • Delay in administrative decision-making
  • Foreign birth registration
  • Judicial-review
  • Costs
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Administrative law [2025] IEHC 710

Kilshane Energy Limited v Eirgrid PLC and Anor [No. 2] (Rev1)

Kilshane Energy Limited v Eirgrid PLC and Anor [No. 2] (Rev1) [2025] IEHC 710 (22 July 2025)

The High Court refused Kilshane Energy Limited’s application for solicitor/client costs, finding no sufficient proof of a serious breach of candour by EirGrid.

  • Duty of candour
  • Solicitor/client costs
  • Disclosure obligations
  • Public law costs orders
  • Judicial-review
  • Duty-of-candour
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Civil procedure [2025] IEHC 288

Yasar v CCC Essen Digital GMBH & Anor, Talibov v CCC Essen Digital GMBH & Anor, Senen v CCC Barcelona Digital Services SLU & Anor [No.4] (Approved)

Yasar v CCC Essen Digital GMBH & Anor, Talibov v CCC Essen Digital GMBH & Anor, Senen v CCC Barcelona Digital Services SLU & Anor [No.4] (Approved) [2025] IEHC 288 (12 May 2025)

The High Court ruled on costs after granting jurisdiction motions in three related cases, awarding the defendants their costs and addressing reserved call-over and discovery-related costs.

  • Jurisdiction of high court
  • Costs orders
  • Eu regulation 1215/2012
  • Case management
  • Discovery motions
  • Costs-orders
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Civil procedure [2025] IEHC 108

Thiebault Enterprise Ltd & Anor v County Registrar for Galway (Approved)

Thiebault Enterprise Ltd & Anor v County Registrar for Galway (Approved) [2025] IEHC 108 (21 February 2025)

The High Court refused judicial review of a taxation of costs. It held a 14-year delay was excused by a shared set-off understanding and no prejudice was shown.

  • Delay in taxation of costs
  • Judicial review
  • Procedural fairness
  • Set-off of costs
  • Judicial-review
  • Costs-taxation
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Administrative law [2025] IEHC 87

Quinn Mc Donagh v Information Commissioner (Approved)

Quinn Mc Donagh v Information Commissioner (Approved) [2025] IEHC 87 (06 February 2025)

Costs ruling in a Freedom of Information appeal. The High Court held the issues were not of exceptional public importance and awarded costs against the appellant.

  • Costs orders
  • Public interest litigation
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Freedom of information act 2014
  • Legal services regulation act 2015
  • Freedom-of-information
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Civil procedure [2024] IEHC 609

Ulster Bank DAC & Ors v McDonagh & Ors [No.3] (Approved)

Ulster Bank DAC & Ors v McDonagh & Ors [No.3] (Approved) [2024] IEHC 609 (30 October 2024)

The High Court refused the McDonaghs’ motion to set aside a prior judgment, holding it had no power to reverse a judgment already affirmed on appeal.

  • Security for costs
  • Isaac wunder orders
  • Vexatious litigation
  • Functus officio
  • Appeals
  • Property rights
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Administrative law [2024] IECA 253

Cooper v An Bord Pleanala (Unapproved)

Cooper v An Bord Pleanala (Unapproved) [2024] IECA 253 (24 October 2024)

The Court of Appeal dismissed David Cooper’s appeal against a costs-adjudication review, holding he showed no error in the adjudication and was improperly relitigating earlier judgments.

  • Judicial review
  • Costs adjudication
  • Appeal procedure
  • Abuse of process
  • Costs-adjudication
  • Judicial-review
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