State to pay most legal costs in right to die case

The State has agreed to orders that it will pay most of the substantial legal costs of the unsuccessful challenge by Marie Fleming to the law making it an offence to assist a suicide.

The 59-year-old from Wicklow died last month eight months after losing her landmark right-to-die case.

Yesterday the Supreme Court agreed to an application by her counsel not to formally draw up the costs orders until her estate has been constituted.