{"id":1916,"date":"2008-05-29T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T09:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childabusecommission.ie\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2022-05-06T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T10:03:01","slug":"29-may-2008-3rd-party-legal-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childabusecommission.ie\/?p=1916","title":{"rendered":"29 May 2008 3rd Party Legal Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Section 20A(2) of the \u201cCommission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000\u201d (as amended), provides that \u201c<em>the Commission may pay such reasonable costs arising out of the [3 rd party legal] representation\u2026to the person so represented, as are agreed between the Commission and that person\u2026\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the Commission\u2019s position that the Act of 2000 only allows for settlement of 3 rd party legal representation costs that accrued since the establishment date of the Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, the Commission is engaged in settling the legal representation costs of the persons referred to in section 20A of the Act.<br>The Commission considers costs submitted by solicitors and counsel who have acted for complainants or respondents, including<br>those of the witnesses who attended at the Commission\u2019s \u201cInvestigation Committee\u201d proceedings. There are no legal<br>representation costs for witnesses who have attended the Commission\u2019s \u201cConfidential Committee\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, it is open to the Chairperson of the Commission to hold further hearings if it is deemed necessary in order to complete<br>the work of the Investigation Committee. Therefore, the Commission reserves the right to settle 3 rd party legal representation<br>costs, only at the point it considers a matter \u201cclosed\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With reference to Section 20A of the 2000 Act, once the Commission has decided, in principle, to pay a particular set of fees,<br>it is statutorily bound to pay only what is&nbsp;reasonable&nbsp;in relation to the legal representation of a person. Full and final settlement<br>of the fees will be agreed with a client\u2019s solicitor (or be subject to taxation), after the Commission\u2019s Costs Team, including its<br>Legal Costs Accountant, has extensively scrutinized the work undertaken by the legal representatives. As such, but without<br>interfering in the solicitor\/client relationship, the Commission considers that once those fees have been accepted by the solicitor,<br>no further costs should accrue to the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any questions on the subject of the 3 rd party legal representation costs should be addressed, via your solicitor, to the<br>Secretary of the Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section 20A(2) of the \u201cCommission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000\u201d (as amended), provides that \u201cthe Commission may pay such reasonable costs arising out of the [3 rd party legal] representation\u2026to the person so represented, as are agreed between the Commission and that person\u2026\u201d. 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