Costs awarded to entirely successful respondents in judicial review proceedings

Judicial Review – Revenue Commissioner – Director of Public Prosecutions – supplemental judgment addressing the allocation of costs and the question of a stay pending a possible appeal to the Court of Appeal – application for judicial review was dismissed in its entirety – application accepts respondents are entitled to the costs of the substantive hearing but resists any requirement to pay the costs in respect of an application for leave to cross-examine and secondly, application for discovery – satisfied that the cross-examination was unnecessary – no cogent reason has been advanced by the applicant that the costs incurred before the High Court should be treated differently than those of the appeal to the Court of Appeal – stay on the two criminal prosecutions – order for costs in favour of the respondent - costs are to include all reserved costs; the costs of the discovery application before the High Court; the costs of the application for leave to cross-examine in April 2021; the costs of the substantive hearing; and the costs of all the various sets of written legal submissions prepared on behalf of the respondents – including cost of the Appeal before the Court of Appeal in circumstances where that court directed that those be costs in the cause – subject to adjudication in default of agreement – liberty to apply.