Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation

9:00 am

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

They are. For example, we dealt with the Corr v. Sheehan case, which is in the precedent books in relation to costs. The professional fee for a solicitor in the case was reduced by the Taxing Master from €325,000 to €265,000. It was an individual case and that was the adjustment made by the Taxing Master at the time. Equally, the Taxing Master adjusted counsels' fees. We have a taxation of costs system, whereby if the parties ultimately do not agree on costs or cannot agree reductions, whereby the costs are settled at acceptable levels, they can go to the Taxing Master and ultimately the High Court. The Corr v. Sheehan case went all the way to the Supreme Court.

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