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The Court of Appeal has quashed the County Registrar's adjudication of costs in a personal injury case, finding that the principles relating to legal costs specified in statute were not applied as required by law. The case, originally heard in the Waterford Circuit Court, resulted in an €8,000 damages award to the plaintiff, with costs ordered on the District Court scale. The plaintiff's subsequent challenge to the District Court scale of costs and the County Registrar's application of it was largely dismissed, but the appeal succeeded on the grounds that the County Registrar failed to consider the principles of legal costs during the adjudication process. The original decision of the High Court to uphold the District Court scale and the County Registrar's Determination was thus partially overturned, and the matter was remitted back to the County Registrar for a new determination in accordance with legal principles.
Judicial Review, County Registrar, Costs Adjudication, Legal Services Regulation Act 2015, Schedule 1, District Court Scale of Costs, Court of Appeal, Personal Injury Proceedings, Waterford Circuit Court, Damages Award, Principles Relating to Legal Costs, Quashing Order, Remittal, Access to Courts, Rules of the Superior Courts (RSC), Proportionality of Costs, Differential Costs Order, Courts Act 1981, Courts of Justice Act 1924.
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