Mr. Michael Kealey:

It applies to a lot of civil litigation but for the reasons I have outlined, defamation cases are much more costly. The taxation rules are the rules that decide how much in legal costs people get if they win a case. In a straightforward High Court defamation case there are ten lawyers, with five on either side. There are two senior counsel, a junior counsel, a solicitor and an assistant solicitor. This is why the costs are so high. We do not have them in other civil areas. The reason they are in defamation cases is that jury trials are complicated.