Sinead O'Carroll
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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His firm is one of the top earners in the industry.
And he said that he has heard that there have been threats to barristers to be told, well, don't work with the solicitors who haven't withdrawn their service because we will then blacklist you and not then ask you to serve our clients in the future because they're obviously trying to get as many solicitors involved.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a bit of a dollop of common sense, I think, on both sides, because it's obviously anything, there's a withdrawal of service.
There's always a PR battle.
Who's going to win the hearts and minds of the public?
In this instance, I don't think there is that much buy-in from the public about what's happening, but they are gleaning the headlines of €31,000 to a solicitor's firm for one appearance in court because they knew how to play the system, you know.
yeah if you've got multiple charges and each one of them each one of them gets a 240 charge so if you have 130 charges and there's 240 and then we've also heard details I think selectively and judiciously from the one side about what is happening you know we know that there was crash courses given by solicitors firms of how to maximise payments under the scheme and obviously that's part of why the scheme has gone from 19 million 10 years ago to 41 million now even though there are fewer cases being heard in the
in the courts.
Yeah, and actually the analysis in the papers is really good.
Brenda Power, Gary Murphy, Brenda Power, the back page of the Sunday Independent, Gary Murphy in the Sunday Times and Matt Cooper in the Business Post all kind of make arguments like that, that, you know,
There is no one size fits all for this because you do have to take into account, you know, if there are adjournments and delays that solicitors aren't incentivised to fight against the state, then you could have instances where people don't get justice because they're able to fight because there's inordinate delays or, you know, that the system isn't working as planned.
And there's also complex cases that 520 flat fee might not work for.
And I think one thing that the solicitors will get a win from
From O'Callaghan on is that they only get paid at the end.
And I think any system where you only get paid when something concludes, particularly if it is a complex legal situation.
Done, yeah.
And obviously what we know is the average court appearances is three if there's no legal aid and it's five if there is legal aid.
The other thing Gary Murphy said is there is power within the judiciary to stop some of the legal aid certificates being granted.
So, you know, there are other reforms that could happen.
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