Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown

Proposals in place to cap costs in effort to speed up supply of infrastructure and housing

IPI president Gavin Lawlor said judicial reviews are a ‘worsening problem’

Cónal Thomas and Wayne O’Connor

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Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.

New limits on legal costs awarded to the successful objector are being examined and coalition sources said the Government is determined to ­introduce this by early next year.