Environmental groups challenge Ireland's cap on legal costs in judicial review cases
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Emma Hickey
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Two environmental groups, An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment, have launched a High Court challenge against the State's new Planning and Development Regulations 2026. The challenge specifically targets the provision that caps legal costs recoverable by successful litigants in environmental judicial review cases, arguing it restricts access to environmental justice.
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· 3 pulledTWO ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS have jointly launched a court challenge to the State's new legislation to restrict judicial review.
An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment have made an application to the High Court regarding one aspect of the Planning and Development Regulations 2026
...which caps the legal costs that can be recovered by successful litigants in environmental legal cases.
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