Cost of external professional fees/counsel for public law claims from 2016 to 2022

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.23.029544

I note you seek access to the following information:

1. Please can I have the amount spent on external professional fees for public law claims broken down by year for the years 2016 to 2022?
You have already provided this for inquests and civil claims

2. Please can I have the amount spent on external counsel for public law claims broken down by year for the years 2016 to 2022?
You have already provided this for inquests and civil claims

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Please note DLS have reviewed all your data requests to ensure consistency of what has previously been provided, particularly as the scope has changed. As a result of this there is a small difference in some of the figures provided here compared to those in earlier requests. In this request we have provided more information than you have requested to ensure that you have all the information available in one place.

For this specific request, you can find the information in the table headed ‘Civil Claims (PL)’ and then the side heading of ‘External costs – Professional Fees’