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Conradh Na Gaeilge Application for Judicial Review (No 2)

Supplementary judicial review judgment correcting the record: the Minister for Communities had responded in May 2026, so no declaration or mandatory order issues against him.

  • Ministerial-decision-making
  • Delay-in-administrative-response
  • Declaratory-relief
  • Mandatory-order
  • Costs
  • Judicial-review
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Property-law [2026] IECA 80

KBC Bank NV v Smith & Ors (Approved) (Rev1)

KBC Bank NV v Smith & Ors (Approved) (Rev1) [2026] IECA 80 (11 May 2026)

The Court of Appeal dismissed challenges to substitution and strike out orders, holding the defendants could not collaterally attack a final possession order or re-enter the property.

  • Mortgage-possession
  • Collateral-attack
  • Abuse-of-process
  • Fraud-allegations
  • Substitution-of-parties
  • Damages-undertaking
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Civil-procedure [2026] NIMaster 7

Beattie v Manderson & Anor

Beattie v Manderson & Anor [2026] NIMaster 7 (22 April 2026)

In a clinical negligence costs dispute, the court held the plaintiff should recover the costs of resisting a withdrawn application to set aside service of the writ.

  • Costs
  • Service-of-process
  • Litigation-conduct
  • Clinical-negligence-protocol
  • Clinical-negligence
  • Civil-procedure
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Civil-procedure [2026] NICty 1

Storey v AXA XL Insurance Company UK Ltd

Storey v AXA XL Insurance Company UK Ltd [2026] NICty 1 (26 March 2026)

The County Court held that, after a lodgment is accepted, Order 21 Rule 2(1) gives the district judge discretion to assess reasonable costs and expenses up to the lodgment date.

  • Interpretation-of-county-court-rules-order-21-rule-2(1)
  • Discretion-in-assessment-of-costs-after-acceptance-of-lodgment
  • Personal-injury-claims
  • Statutory-interpretation-of-'costs-and-expenses-reasonably-incurred'
  • Civil-procedure
  • Costs
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Administrative-law [2025] NIKB 72

Lynch & Anor, Application for Judicial Review

Lynch & Anor, Application for Judicial Review [2025] NIKB 72 (16 December 2025)

Leave to seek judicial review was refused over a planning dispute, with the court holding the challenges to validity, EIA, enforcement and fairness were unarguable.

  • Judicial-review
  • Planning-permission
  • Environmental-impact-assessment
  • Enforcement-action
  • Procedural-fairness
  • Costs
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Civil-procedure [2025] NIMaster 19

Hawthorne v Donnelly & Anor

Hawthorne v Donnelly & Anor [2025] NIMaster 19 (14 November 2025)

The court refused the plaintiff’s summary judgment application and granted the second defendant’s specific discovery request for medical and related records.

  • Summary-judgment
  • Specific-discovery
  • Discrimination
  • Personal-injury
  • Costs
  • Medical-records
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Administrative-law [2025] NIKB 57

JR333, Re Application for Judicial Review (Ruling On Costs)

JR333, Re Application for Judicial Review (Ruling On Costs) [2025] NIKB 57 (07 November 2025)

The High Court in Northern Ireland made no order as to costs after dismissing a judicial review leave application involving a school suspension and expulsion dispute.

  • Judicial-review
  • School-suspension
  • School-expulsion
  • Costs-in-judicial-review
  • Costs
  • Education-law
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Civil-procedure [2025] NICty 6

Paul Dicks and First Central Underwriting Limited (t/a 1st Central Underwriting)

Paul Dicks and First Central Underwriting Limited (t/a 1st Central Underwriting) [2025] NICty 6 (21 October 2025)

The County Court settled costs after acceptance of a lodgment, awarding 75% of defended scale fees and refusing an extra fee for drafting particulars.

  • Costs
  • Lodgment
  • Scale-fees
  • Personal-injury-damages
  • County-court-procedure
  • Personal-injury
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Personal-injury [2025] NIMaster 11

McLaughlin and Italian Coffee Holdings Limited (t/a Cafe Nero) & Ors

McLaughlin and Italian Coffee Holdings Limited (t/a Cafe Nero) & Ors [2025] NIMaster 11 (26 June 2025)

The court granted a second interim payment in a catastrophic injury claim and ordered equal contributions from the first, third, fifth and sixth defendants.

  • Interim-payments
  • Catastrophic-injury
  • Apportionment-of-liability
  • Costs
  • Civil-procedure
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Family-law [2025] NICA 27

B v B

B v B [2025] NICA 27 (28 May 2025)

Appeal in ancillary relief partly allowed and remitted for a needs-based analysis of the wife’s and child’s housing requirements.

  • Ancillary-relief
  • Prenuptial-agreements
  • Division-of-matrimonial-assets
  • Needs-based-analysis
  • Child-welfare
  • Costs-in-family-proceedings
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