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High Court grants costs of application for mandamus where decision on naturalisation made on eve of hearing following three-year delay.
Judicial review - mandamus - application for naturalisation - application to compel Minister to issue decision - 2008 application - Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956 - failure to issue decision by April 2011 - certificate of naturalisation issued on eve of hearing - issue of costs - discretion of Minister - whether "absolute discretion" - filing of statement of opposition - whether unreasonable delay - Article 34, United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons, 1951 - whether discretion of Minister freed him from obligations of adherence to the law - whether fair and rational system in place for processing of applications.
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