It is anticipated that the Irish government will seek to legislate for a scale of party-party legal costs (where the unsuccessful party is ordered to pay the costs of the successful litigant) in 2026. The government's refreshed Action Plan on Insurance Reform contains priorities aimed at lowering insurance premiums, with legal costs inflation high on the agenda. The Action Plan specifically calls for the development of new guidelines to set clear levels of legal fees for personal injury litigation, with the aim of promoting transparency and fairness in legal costs. We expect that initial proposals to achieve this will be introduced by Dail Éireann in 2026, and will be hotly contested by the Law Society of Ireland, the office of the Legal Costs Adjudicator and the Bar Council.