§ Mr. AltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much has been spent by the Government since 1979 in fighting cases before the European Court of Human Rights up to, and including the hearing of 28 March; how much has been paid for the instruction of lawyers; what are the estimated costs in employees' time, travelling and accommodation costs of officials involved in these cases; how much has been paid out in costs or expenses and compensation by the Government following rulings by the court; and if he will list the sums involved in each case which has reached a ruling stage.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe information requested is given in the accompanying table.
It is not the practice to publish fees paid to individual counsel in specific cases. The total Government legal costs incurred to date in relation to the 24 cases before the court between 1979 and 28 March 1989 is approximately £215,000.
It is not possible to estimate the costs in respect of officials' time, travel and accommodation for each of these cases.
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Case Compensation paid to the applicant/s Costs and expenses paid to the applicant/s (Including proceedings prior to those before the Court) £ £ Sunday Times — 22,626.78 Young, James & Webster 74,917.00 61,774.00 Dudgeon — 3,315.00 X — 64,811.11 Campbell & Cosans 3,000.00 9,577.13 Silver & Others — 33,066.59 Campbell & Fell — 13,000.00 420W
Case Compensation paid to the applicant/s Costs and expenses paid to the applicant/s (Including proceedings prior to those before the Court) £ £ Malone — 3,744.10 Ashingdane — — Abdulaziz, Cabales & Balkandali 1— 32,000.00 James & Others — — Lithgow & Others — — Rees — — Gillow2 10,735.00 2,134.00 Weeks 8,000.00 1,793.33 AGOSI — — Monnel & Morris — —
Case Compensation paid to the applicant/s Costs and expenses paid to the applicant/s (Including proceedings prior to those before the Court) £ £ Boyle & Rice — 3,450.00 O 5,000.00 9,235.25 H 12,000.00 4,966.55 W 12,000.00 28,246.94 B 12,000.00 12,075.00 R 8,000.00 6,229.50 Brogan 3 1 Approximate. 2 These sums were reimbursed by the Government of Guernsey. 3 Judgment awaited.