Legal Costs
Dear Dumfries and Galloway NHS Board,
Simple Procedure claims mean any award of damages would be capped at £5000.
1. What was the final bill to the Health Board for the Respondents' legal representation in Simple Procedure claim DUM-SG615-17 ?
By this, I mean the bill issued by NHS CLO to the Health Board for CLO's services and the services of a junior advocate.
2. Please provide any documentation that shows whether consideration was given as to whether the cost of defending this Simple Procedure legal action was an effective use of limited public resources.
Yours faithfully,
COLIN WHITE
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NHS Dumfries and Galloway
Dear Dumfries and Galloway NHS Board,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Dumfries and Galloway NHS Board's handling of my FOI request 'Legal Costs'.
You may perhaps be taking a too strict and limited interpretation of my FOI?
Thus, I will rephrase my request:
1. Please provide information that confirms that NHS D&G will be required to pay for the services of NHS Central Legal Office and a Junior Advocate for court case Dum-SG615-17.
2. Has NHS D&G received a request for payment of costs for legal representation in the above case from NHS Central Legal Office?
3. If they have please supply details of the costs for legal representation for the Respondents.
4. If NHS D&G has not yet been billed for those costs, how soon after a case is settled would you normally receive a request for reimbursement of costs incurred by NHS Central Legal Office after they represented NHS D&G?
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/l...
Yours faithfully,
COLIN WHITE
Thank you for your review request received 24 October.
Please find attached NHS Dumfries and Galloway's response to your Freedom of Information request.
Kind regards
Freedom of Information Officer
NHS Dumfries and Galloway
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