Dubsky judicial review costs decided today

national | anti-war / imperialism | news report Monday January 16, 2006 08:58 by Michael

Four Courts, Court 9, 10:30am

Ms. Justice Macken is due to decide today on costs arising from Eoin Dubsky's failed legal challenge to US military refueling in Ireland. On December 13th she returned the High Court's judgement, denying that a "war" is an "armed conflict", and thus Ireland cannot be said to be "participating in war". Furthermore it is sufficient for the government to make Government policy verbally, never writing down what exactly it is they have decided to do.

Ireland, it appears, may partake in armed conflicts without even the assent of Dail Eireann.

The full text of the judgement is available online in PDF format and as an interactive wiki -- http://eoin.free.fr/wiki/

Watch this space today as updates come in during the day.