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Can I request what was paid to solicitor?

  • 14-04-2013 10:21am
    #1
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭


    A couple of years ago I settled a case with my solicitor outside of court, I never seen what was paid to him....can I ask for this through a FOI route? Thanks


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    Doom wrote: »
    A couple of years ago I settled a case with a solicitor outside of court, I never seen what was paid to them....can I ask for this through a FOI route? Thanks

    No


  • #3
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    Deleted User wrote: »
    No

    No to request what was paid or FOI? Thanks for reply.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
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    Doom wrote: »
    No to request what was paid or FOI? Thanks for reply.

    If he was your solicitor you'd have gotten a bill of costs, if he wasn't it is none of your business. Ask away but you've no right to know unless the costs went to taxation and you were liable for them which, given the nature of your question, clearly was not the case.


  • #5
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    He was my solicitor....I never received a bill of costs.


  • #6
    Pat Mustard
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    Ask him.


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  • #7
    McCrack
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    I'm not sure you have an entitlement to know his own professional fee but you are entitled to a copy of the client ledger showing all disbursements paid throughout your case.

    As a matter of transparency I don't see any problem in letting a client have this information once the costs are paid by the other side. Its certainly the practice in my office.


  • #8
    dats_right
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭dats_right


    FOI applies only to certain prescribed public bodies, so it does not have any application in respect of your solicitor. However, your solicitor is/was under a statutory duty to furnish you information about any costs recovered from the other side on your behalf, even if you were not requested to pay any additional fees to your solicitor.

    Section 68(6) of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1994 provides:
    Notwithstanding any other legal provision to that effect a solicitor shall show on a bill of costs to be furnished to the client, as soon as practicable after the conclusion of any contentious business carried out by him on behalf of that client—

    (a) a summary of the legal services provided to the client in connection with such contentious business,

    (b) the total amount of damages or other moneys recovered by the client arising out of such contentious business, and

    (c) details of all or any part of the charges which have been recovered by that solicitor on behalf of that client from any other party or parties (or any insurers of such party or parties),

    and that bill of costs shall show separately the amounts in respect of fees, outlays, disbursements and expenses incurred or arising in connection with the provision of such legal services.

    Many solicitors are surprisingly unaware of this obligation, so it may just be an oversight on your solicitors behalf not furnishing this information to you in the first place. A simple telephone call to his office to request this information will probably suffice in terms of obtaining the information you require,.


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