NIO publishes Saville costs

THE Northern Ireland Office has published the full details of the financial costs of Lord Saville's inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday.
By The Newsroom
Published 17th Jun 2010, 14:58 BST
Updated 17th Jun 2010, 14:59 BST

The figures published on the NIO's website show the tribunal spent more than 34million on its computers and over 67m on legal costs.

The full legal costs outlined by the NIO are shown below. These and all other costs can be found on the NIO website http://www.nio.gov.uk/

BLOODY SUNDAY INQUIRY – LEGAL COSTS*

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*Revised 16 June 2010. No change to figures or overall total.

(Total: 67,603,621 – to end of May 2010)

Payments made ()

Counsel for the Inquiry

Christopher Clarke 4,497,963

Jacob Grierson 394,879

Alan Roxburgh 3,525,731

Cathryn McGahey 2,492,473

Bilal Rawat 2,547,142

Inquiry Counsel travel & accommodation 258,459

Solicitors employed for the taking of witness statements

Eversheds – Legal fees 13,338,368

Senior Counsel representing the families

Lord Gifford 808,040

Arthur Harvey 1,326,426

Michael Lavery 678,191

Barry MacDonald 1,203,202

Declan Morgan 129,657

Terence McDonald 207,420

Michael Mansfield 743,421

Eilish McDermott 1,405,133

Seamus Treacy 1,008,703

Eoin McGonigle 134,556

Kevin Finegan 551,815

Senior Counsel representing NICRA

Sir Louis Blom-Cooper 587,746

Junior Counsel representing the families

John Coyle 812,613

Fiona Doherty 670,877

Ciaran Harvey 673,951

Richard Harvey 676,214

Brian Kennedy 661,153

Philip Magee 83,175

Kieron Mallon 843,568

Brian McCartney 874,398

Karen Quinlivan 610,392

Patricia Smyth 360,911

Michael Topolski 159,915

Mary McHugh 424,524

Junior Counsel For NICRA

Paddy O'Hanlon 442,732

Solicitors representing families

Barr & Company Solicitors 695,461

Brendan Kearney & Co Solicitors 1,280,392

Desmond Doherty & Co Solicitors 1,449,836

MacDermott & McGurk Solicitors 1,529,070

Madden & Finucane Solicitors 11,863,264

McCann & McCann Solicitors 696,379

McCartney & Casey Solicitors 1,483,282

Solicitor representing NICRA

Frances Keenan Solicitors 611,701

Legal representatives for other witnesses

Allen & Overy Solicitors 828,188

Wynne Baxter Solicitors 45,279

BBC Litigation Department 9,215

Biddle Solicitors 18,630

Bindman & Partners Solicitors 122,838

Denis Boyd BL 10,313

Murtagh Breen Solicitors 6,612

Gavyn N Cairns 69,170

Conway Todd & Co 6,012

Corker Binning Solicitors 47,078

Sean Doran BL 5,215

Edwards & Co Solicitor 5,698

Patrick Fahey BL 9,887

Richard Ferguson 35,202

Finers Stephens Innocent 74,374

J P French Associates 15,282

D J Freeman 9,173

James Gallagher 5,674

Addleshaw Goddard 16,203

H2O Solicitors 107,687

Michael E Hanahoe 10,949

Harte Coyle Collins 19,412

Hasson & Company 14,603

Hegarty & Mc Feeley 5,129

Terry Hemming 11,926

Hopkins & Co 8,337

J A Hughes 5,294

Moorhead James 5,922

Anthony Jennings QC 62,882

Johnsons Solicitors 17,940

Jones & Co 657,144

Jones & Associates 8,266

Kain Knight Ltd 112,961

Oliver J Kelly & Co Solicitors 17,143

Imran Khan & Partners 10,554

Blount Petre Kramer 8,198

Michael Lanigan & Co 10,101

McBurney & Company 5,015

Tom McCreanor BL 327,379

Michael McCrea 20,827

J B McCloskey QC 17,318

McElhinney & McDaid Solicitors 15,184

P J McGrory Solicitors 804,753

Patrick Moloney 9,094

Philip Mooney 14,629

Jeremy Morgan 30,460

Andrew J Moriarty 7,864

Dennis Mullan 5,781

Andrew Nicol QC 81,641

Taylor Nichol 24,228

Kevin O'Donovan 218,657

Penleys 6,969

Peters & Peters 6,392

Pinsent Curtis Biddle 12,830

Gareth Purvis 180,377

Rodgers HM 7,579

John Ross & Son 16,808

Charles Russell Solicitors 42,071

Marcus Rutherford 24,342

Millis Selig 30,685

Geoffery Shaw 15,916

Smith Dornan & Shea PC 7,550

J B Stelfox & Co Solicitors 12,745

Treasury Solicitors 99,308

Turlough Montague 12,220

Russell Jones & Walker 40,195

Richard Weir 11,456

Noel Wilson & Co Solicitors 155,765

Terry Wisdom 25,753

Payments under 5,000 made to 75 other solicitors 115,987

Counsel instructed to assist the Inquiry

Laura Dawes 13,071

Dinah Rose 5,147

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE LEGAL COSTS

(Total: 32,553,738 – to end of May 2010)

Payments made ()

Senior Counsel representing HM armed forces

Edwin Glasgow QC 4,065,817

Edmund Lawson QC 942,943

David Lloyd Jones QC 1,095,966

Gerard Elias QC 1,795,752

Peter Clarke QC 958,853

Sir Allan Green QC 1,522,441

Rosamund Horwood-Smart QC 677,874

Sir Sydney Kentridge QC 52,875

Anna Worrall QC 100,457

Senior Counsel representing MOD

Ian Burnett QC 231,386

Philip Havers QC 7,138

Junior Counsel representing HM armed forces

Alexander Milne 409,121

Bridget Petherbridge 126,197

Huw Davies 369,475

Ian Leist 965,146

Michael Hick 253,895

Gaby Bonham-Carter 277,393

Pamela Morrison 131,378

Kristian Mills 56,929

Nicholas Moss 991,892

Sam Grodzinski 1,877

Stephen Requena 88,161

Alan May 299,009

Andrew Hurst 590,803

David Bradly 1,291,966

Michael Bools 990,071

Nicholas Griffin 1,195,062

Thomas Quinton 426,072

Junior Counsel representing MOD

William Hoskins 49,892

Sacha Ackland 2,776

Jonathan Hough 4,488

Solicitors representing HM armed forces

Devonshires 2,727,581

Kingsley Napley 1,943,586

Payne Hicks Beach 3,796,005

Jacqueline Duff 176,371

Treasury Solicitor 3,937,088

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