Applicant secures costs after unreceived email leads to quashing of inadmissibility decision

The High Court awarded costs to the applicant following judicial review proceedings in which a decision declaring the applicant's international protection claim inadmissible was quashed by consent. The key issue was whether the applicant, who had not received critical correspondence due to a technical email delivery failure, should bear his own legal costs despite a swift concession by the respondents. While both parties were found to have acted responsibly and without fault, the court found that the applicant, having succeeded in obtaining the principal relief (an order of certiorari), was entitled to costs under the ordinary rule. The judgment noted the unusual situation involving an unreceived email and clarified that the existence of additional grounds for relief was irrelevant to the costs outcome.