You can read the Government's Statement of Costs - totally over £508,000 - here. rebrand.ly/d-costs-1502
Government used an incredible 11 solicitors (4 senior solicitors, i.e. over 8 years PQE), 6 junior counsel and 2 QCs.
As a result, Government has incurred £70k communicating with themselves internally. Note – this is not communicating with counsel, which they include separately. This is just their lawyers, speaking to themselves.
Government has incurred a staggering £205k of costs preparing documents for a one day judicial review.
The total time spent by their solicitors (again, not counsel, not the external law firm, just Government's own solicitors) is just short of 2000 hours (1983 hours to be exact).
Indeed, so staggering are the Government's costs of a one day judicial review, that they spent 42 hours just preparing the schedule of costs.
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