Word Perfect Translation Services Ltd v The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Judge | O'Donnell J.,Charleton J.,Irvine J. |
| Judgment Date | 18 May 2020 |
| Neutral Citation | [2020] IESCDET 61 |
| Date | 18 May 2020 |
| Court | Supreme Court |
| Docket Number | Supreme Court record no: S:AP:IE:2020:000037 High Court record no: 2018 No. 938 JR |
[2020] IESCDET 61
O'Donnell J.
Charleton J.
Irvine J.
Supreme Court record no: S:AP:IE:2020:000037
Court of Appeal record no: A:AP:IE:2019:000110
High Court record no: 2018 No. 938 JR
THE SUPREME COURT
DETERMINATION
RESULT: The Court grants leave to the Applicant to appeal to this Court from the Court of Appeal.
ORDER SOUGHT TO BE APPEALED
REASONS GIVEN:
| COURT: COURT OF APPEAL |
| DATE OF JUDGMENT OR RULING: 24 TM OCTOBER, 2019 |
| DATE OF ORDER: 24 TM OCTOBER, 2019 |
| DATE OF PERFECTION OF ORDER: 4 TM MARCH, 2020 |
| THE APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL WAS MADE ON 24 TM MARCH, 2020 AND WAS IN TIME. |
The general principles applied by this court in determining whether to grant or refuse leave to appeal, having regard to the criteria incorporated into the Constitution as a result of the Thirty-third Amendment, have now been considered in a large number of determinations and are fully addressed in both a determination issued by a panel consisting of all of the members of this court in B.S. v. Director of Public Prosecutions [2017] IESCDET 134, (Unreported, Supreme Court, 6 December 2017) and in a unanimous judgment of a full court delivered by O'Donnell J. in Quinn Insurance Ltd. v. PricewaterhouseCoopers [2017] IESC 73, [2017] 3 I.R. 812. Accordingly, it is unnecessary to revisit the new constitutional architecture for the purpose of this determination.
Furthermore, the application for leave filed and the respondent's notice are published along with this determination (subject only to any redaction required by law), and it is therefore unnecessary to set out the position of the parties in any detail. No aspect of this ruling has precedential value as a matter of law.
In the underlying proceedings, the applicant for leave, Word Perfect Translations Services Limited (“Word Perfect”) seeks to challenge under 0.84A, Rules of the Superior Courts, the award of a contract for interpretation services pursuant to a supplementary request for tenders (“SRFT”) issued by the respondent Minister in February 2018. Word Perfect was informed in October 2018 that it had been unsuccessful in the tender. It had been awarded 848.37 marks and the successful tender had...
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Word Perfect Translation Services Ltd v Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
...Court. By determination dated 18th May 2020, the Court granted Word Perfect leave to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal: [2020] IESCDET 61. A dispute arose between the parties as to the permitted scope of the appeal. The Minister argued that some of the grounds of appeal sought to b......