A court may, on application by a party to civil proceedings, at any stage and from time to time during, the proceedings, order that a party to the proceedings pay the costs of or incidental to the proceedings or of one or more parties to the proceedings. Where proceedings before the State concern the estate of an individual, it may order the costs to be paid from the estate or trust.<\/p>\n
An order may include an order that a party shall pay a part of another party\u2019s costs, costs until a specified date, costs relating to one or more particular steps. Where a party is partially successful in proceedings, cost relating to the successful element or elements of the proceeding, interest on costs.<\/p>\n
A party who is entirely successful in civil proceedings is entitled to an award of costs against a party who is not successful, unless the court orders otherwise, having regard to the particular nature and circumstances of the case and conduct of the party.<\/p>\n
The court may have regard to the conduct of the parties, before enduring the proceedings, whether it was reasonable for a party to raise, pursue and contest one or more of issues in the proceedings, the manner in which parties conducted all or part of their case, whether a successful party exaggerated his or her claim, whether a party made a payment into court on the date of payment, whether a party made an offer to settle the subject of the proceedings, and if so, the date, terms and circumstances of that offer.<\/p>\n
Where the parties were invited by the court to settle the claim, whether by mediation or otherwise, the court considers that one or more of the parties was or were unreasonable in refusing to engage in the settlement discussions or in mediation.<\/p>\n
Where the court orders that a party who is entirely successful in civil proceedings is not entitled to an award of costs against the other party, who is not successful, it must give reasons for that order.<\/p>\n
If a party succeeds against one or more parties to civil proceedings but not all of them, it may order, to the extent it considers proper in the circumstances, that the successful party shall pay all or costs of the party against whom he has not succeeded for the party or more than one of the parties against whom the successful party succeeded, pay not only the costs of the successful party but also the costs that the successful party was liable to above.<\/p>\n
Unless the court before whom civil proceedings were commenced orders otherwise, all parties to proceedings or all parties agree otherwise, a party who discontinues or abandons proceedings after they are commenced is liable to pay the reasonable costs of every party who has incurred costs in the defence of civil proceedings concerned until discontinuance or abandonment.<\/p>\n\n
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Court Order for Costs Where a person is ordered by a court, tribunal or other body to pay, in whole or in part, legal costs of another, the person whose legal costs are to be paid must furnish a bill of costs to the person who is the subject of the order to pay. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}