State must pay Callely legal costs for successful challenge

The State must pay the legal costs of former politician Ivor Callely’s successful High Court challenge over the minister for justice’s refusal to grant him enhanced remission from a jail sentence for fraudulently claiming Oireachtas expenses.

Mr Justice Anthony Barr earlier this month quashed, and referred for reconsideration, the refusal of enhanced remission.

The judge said it appeared the minister had failed to take all relevant matters into account, as she is obliged to do, when arriving at her decision.