High Court rejects woman’s case over ‘excessive’ legal bill

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Judge said result of separation proceedings coloured woman’s opinion that solicitor alleged charged too much

The judge said the woman was deeply unhappy with the result she got in her separation proceedings.

He was not satisfied any significant error had been shown to exist in the determination of the committee. Mr Justice Barr said it appeared the woman had “conflated many aspects of her litigation and the unhappy ending of her marriage and a separate land dispute in arriving at the conclusion that she has been greatly injured in life and that it was all the fault of the solicitor, who acted for her in the judicial separation proceedings”. That view, the judge said, was unfounded both in law and in fact.

The undertaking stated it had been explained to her that senior counsel would charge a €9,000 plus VAT brief fee to deal with her case and €2,500, plus VAT, for every day that it ran in the High Court. The remainder of the bill concerned €29,000 in respect of senior counsel, €21,050 for one junior counsel, €31,450 for the second junior counsel, €2,900 for the auctioneer, €30,375 for the forensic accountant, and €400 in respect of the agricultural valuation. The total of the outlays came to €115,175, excluding VAT.

 

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