Breakdown of legal fees from £25,000 - £50,000: FOI release

Information requested

1. In the last five financial years (inclusive of 2021/22), please provide the details of which matters counsel or legal advice was sought for any cumulative cost of legal fees of more than £25,000 and less than £50,000, itemised by amount.

2. This should include live and closed matters, with "matters" taken to be a general description of the action, not the legal specifics, in a way which would eliminate any prejudice in disclosing the sums spent on the action, e.g. Alex Salmond judicial review: £500,000.

3 . Please provide the total cost of all counsel or legal advice sought for the last ten years inclusive of 2021/22, by year.

Response

The tables below provide the information you have requested.

The first table provides details for items 1 and 2 from your FOI request.

Case Reference	Case Name	Total Spend
LIT/10904	STUART QUINN	£ 41,104.00
LIT/15261	SPUC	£ 40,256.00
LIT/16729	Abundance Investment LTD and Donald Houston v Scottish Ministers	£ 40,146.08
LIT/09774	NEIL ROBERTSON	£ 36,814.52
LIT/11561	JOHN STEWART	£ 36,500.00
LIT/17863	Gigaclear Limited v Scottish Ministers	£ 35,455.18
LIT/18522	For Women Scotland - petition for judicial review:	£ 32,819.00
LIT/13552	P PETITIONER	£ 31,246.50
LIT/17486	Perth & Kinross council v Scottish ministers	£ 30,432.00
LIT/17476	William McCulloch v Scottish Ministers	£ 27,136.00
LIT/17243	Michael Glancy v Scottish Ministers (petition)	£ 26,660.00
LIT/10947	POOLE V DOYLE & REGISTERS OF SCOTLAND	£ 25,990.25
LIT/18528	Shannon Dalton	£ 25,699.00

Table 2 provides some of the information requested for item 3 (we are only required to hold financial information for 7 years)

2015/16	£2,865,036.28
2016/17	£2,058,493.28
2017/18	£1,381,649.53
2018/19	£1,239,044.55
2019/20	£1,746,474.63
2020/21	£1,808,440.99
2021/22	£385,980.90

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