The headline from the recent decision in
Gravity
Construction Limited v Total Highway Maintenance
Limited
[2021] IEHC 19
(
Gravity ) was that for the
first time the Irish High Court handed down judgment concerning the
enforcement of an adjudicator s decision awarded pursuant to
the Construction Contracts Act 2013. The decision was also
significant for the Court s examination of the normal rule that
costs follow the event and the considerations
that are to be taken into account by a court under s.169 of the
Legal Services Regulation Act 2015 (the
LSRA
2015 ).
In
Grimes v. Punchestown Developments Company
Limited [2002] 4 IR 515, Denham J. (as she then was)
stated that the