High Court, having dismissed an appeal by a tenant from a determination of the Residential Tenancies Board, refuses to grant costs against the tenant to the notice party landlord, on the grounds that the landlord had adopted a limited approach to the appeal and this did not give rise to an entitlement to costs.
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