Marc Godart’s lawyers urge court not to make him pay ex-tenant’s legal costs

Marc Godart, Green Label’s sole director, said in an affidavit that the company was no longer trading and had no funds to pay the award. Illustration: Paul Scott

Former tenant Lizet Peña-Herrera brought a High Court application against Green Label Short Lets Ltd, the Godart firm that was ordered in 2022 to pay her the €15,433 compensation because she was unlawfully evicted from a house she was living in at Vintage Court, Cork Street, Dublin 8. He senior counsel, John Kennedy, submitted on Friday that it is “clear as day” that Mr Godart is the “real party” in the application. His client had to take risks coming to the High Court to get justice for being egregiously convicted, he said.

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