Hearing into whether solicitor should pay refugee case costs

The High Court is to conduct a hearing into whether a solicitor acting for Syrian refugees in an action against the EU and the Irish State should pay the legal costs of a case which was withdrawn a day after it started when a judge was told the two families are now in Germany.

The development came yesterday in a hearing brought on the families’ behalf by the Dublin solicitor firm of Simon McGarr.

Padraig McCartan, instructed by Mr McGarr, said the case was now moot and was being withdrawn. He asked there be no order as to costs as they were refugees who had lost everything.