{"id":194960,"date":"2025-12-16T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194960\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:33:18","slug":"lawyers-being-paid-costs-out-of-all-proportion-with-size-of-claims-judge-says-as-woman-faces-legal-bill-of-e50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194960\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers being paid costs \u2018out of all proportion\u2019 with size of claims, judge says, as woman faces legal bill of \u20ac50,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Laws passed by the Oireachtas causing \u2018systematic unfairness\u2019 for litigants\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The difference between having a case heard in the High Court rather than lower courts can be worth tens of thousands of euro, judge says. Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/35871b9b-f24a-4684-9d8c-0d4659b5c4f3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The difference between having a case heard in the High Court rather than lower courts can be worth tens of thousands of euro, judge says. Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A judge has hit out at low monetary thresholds which mean \u201cminor\u201d cases are ending up in the Circuit Court and the High Court, where the legal costs involved are often a multiple of the value of the claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">High Court judge Michael Twomey made the comments in a case where a woman who lost a \u20ac16,500 personal injury claim following a road traffic collision is now faced with legal costs of \u20ac50,000 or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laws passed by the Oireachtas causing \u2018systematic unfairness\u2019 for litigants The difference between having a case heard in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,9657],"class_list":["post-194960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-shane-phelan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}