FOISA Response No. 834 - spend on external legal advice
27 Jan 2023
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Where relevant, we publish our responses to Freedom of Information requests under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA).
This response addressed the following query:
- “1) The total spend, broken down by financial or calendar year, on external legal advice since April 1, 2020. (I.e. 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 to date)
- 1a) Please break this down by the list of associated cases or disputes, and their individual cost.
- 1b) If possible, please provide the final settlement or damages or other court mandated payment cost for any cases during which external legal advice was sought. If it is not possible to link each case to a settlement agreement, please provide the total cost of the settlements or payments.”
Our spend on external legal advice since 1 April broken down by year and case is outlined in the table below.
| 2020/2021 | 2021/2022 | 2022/2023 | Total |
Case 1 | £71 |
| £214 | £285 |
Case 2 | £119 | £202 |
| £321 |
Case 3 | £11,660 | £5,673 | £4,996 | £22,328 |
Case 4 |
| £646 |
| £646 |
Case 5 |
| £329 |
| £329 |
Case 6 | £1,931 | £18,479 | £159,810 | £173,220 |
Total | £13,780 | £18,329 | £165,020 | £197,129 |
There have been no settlement costs from any of the cases.