Who's paying

miseeire

The Nigerian woman fighting deportation back to Nigeria has lost the latest round of her appeal process.She will probably continue on to exhaust every available option open to her.Apparently she is doing this on the advice of her legal team.Oh yes,those well fed professionals who are better at smelling money than a vulture smells a body.Just curious,who is paying for all of this?Surely not the taxpayer where services are being cut to the bone with each passing hour.Is it not time to act sensibly and stop wasting money we do not have.

Our man in Havana

The taxpayer is paying for all of this.

johnnyskeleton

Since the State is successful, they can get an order for her to pay their costs. Whether she has enough money to pay them or not is a different matter.

Her own legal team would have to be paid by her. Again, this depends on whether she has any money or whether someone else is prepared to pay for her. However, the taxpayer doesn't fund her claim unless she gets an order for her costs from the state.

McCrack

This lady will be in receipt of Legal Aid.

Nice try at the ole cynicism OP. Water off a ducks back to most of us around here.

Our man in Havana

Either way as this lady won't have the funds either way, the taxpayer will be bearing the cost win or lose.

blueythebear

Haddockman wrote: »

Either way as this lady won't have the funds either way, the taxpayer will be bearing the cost win or lose.

Legal Aid Board wouldn't fund a judicial review, especially not one such as this. Ms Izevhebekhi is either funding her legal team herself or they're working on a pro bono basis.

The taxpayer have funded the State's legal costs in this matter though. And also, the cost of supplying her with €19 a week as well as accommodation.

Apparently there is an undertaking not to deport her until her case in the European Court of Human Rights is resolved so she'll be here for another year at least. If she had not courted so much publicity, the Minister would probably have allowed her to remain at this stage.

McCrack

It's not a JR, it's a SC Appeal and Flac or Legal Aid are behind it. Very rare for lawyers to do pro bono at such a high level thesedays.

johnnyskeleton

McCrack wrote: »

It's not a JR, it's a SC Appeal and Flac or Legal Aid are behind it. Very rare for lawyers to do pro bono at such a high level thesedays.

It's an appeal to the supreme court from her failed high court JR. You can read the judgement here:

http://www.courts.ie/Judgments.nsf/09859e7a3f34669680256ef3004a27de/8ba2d4445de2e7308025775b003ac36c?OpenDocument

The heading states that it is JR.

If the LAB were behind it they would be the solicitors on record, but they're not. And its not at all that rare for lawyers to do pro bono (or, more specifically, no foal no fee) cases in the Supreme Court these days. Same as it ever was to be honest.

If there is money behind her, it is unlikely to come from the state. Maybe from the support group that got behind her "Let Them Stay" or some such. Equally, she may well be a very wealthy woman who has funds coming in from Nigeria. AFAIK, her latest legal term are Nigerian.

blueythebear

McCrack wrote: »

It's not a JR, it's a SC Appeal and Flac or Legal Aid are behind it. Very rare for lawyers to do pro bono at such a high level thesedays.

I knew I'd get pulled up on that! It was an SC appeal of a JR. Mrs Izevbekhai's current solicitor is Matthew Ezeani, a Nigerian born solicitor and partner in Ceemax solicitors, a private solicitors firm in Dublin 1. Mrs Izevbekhai has engaged private solicitors since at least the original High Court judicial review (possibly before then too, I don't know) and has changed solicitors several times.

Delancey

Is this the same woman who had admitted to uttering forged documents in support of her claim ? If so , I would like to know why she was not prosecuted ?

miseeire

miseeire wrote: »

The Nigerian woman fighting deportation back to Nigeria has lost the latest round of her appeal process.She will probably continue on to exhaust every available option open to her.Apparently she is doing this on the advice of her legal team.Oh yes,those well fed professionals who are better at smelling money than a vulture smells a body.Just curious,who is paying for all of this?Surely not the taxpayer where services are being cut to the bone with each passing hour.Is it not time to act sensibly and stop wasting money we do not have.

Let us take this back to the real issue at stake.

The woman in the case to which you refer is resisting her deportation on the basis of a fear that, should she and her 2 daughters return to Nigeria, the young girls will be genitally mutilated.

Now, I take it that I can safely assume that everyone agrees that if there were a serious risk of such an atrocity that this woman would be perfectly justified in doing whatever she could to keep her children out of Nigeria?

If that is the case then the only way to determine the validity of her claim is through the appropriate forums provided by law that protect everyone on this island, regardless of citizenship, nationality or economic status.

If we subjugated her lawful right to appeal to an economic restriction then it is us who will pay the price and it will be far greater than any monetary sum.