Costs – Application for leave to apply for judicial review discontinued – Application for the costs of the discontinued application for leave to apply for judicial review made by statutory body – Whether the making of the application for leave to apply for judicial review was unreasonable – Whether the conduct on the part of the applicant for leave to apply for judicial review was unreasonable – Whether an alternative remedy was available to the applicant for leave to apply for judicial review at the time of the making of the application – Whether a review board was in existence at the time the application for leave to apply for judicial review was made – Whether the applicant for leave to apply for judicial review applied to the minister for a review of the decision of the statutory body prior to making the application – Whether the application for leave to apply for judicial review was discontinued promptly – Whether a cost order should properly be made in the circumstances – The appropriate cost order to be made in the circumstances – The Judicature (Supreme Court) Act, sections 28E(1), (2) and (3), The Firearms Act, sections 37(1)(c), 37A(1), (2)(a) and (b), 37A(3) and (4) and the Fourth Schedule, paragraphs 1, 2 and 9, The Civil Procedure Rules, 2002, rules 2.2(1) and (2), 37.6(1), 64.3, 64.5(1), 64.6(1), 64.6(3), 64.6(4)(a),(b),(d)(i) and (ii), (e)(i), (ii),(iii) and 64.6(5)(a),(c),(d),(e) and (f)
Case Number
SU 2020 CV 01681
Presiding Judge
Year
Neutral Citation
[2021] JMSC Civ 141
Date of Delivery
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