Panel of Supreme Justices refused the Government leave to appeal.

[Eco Deal]

I also lost a 50kw job but I replaced it with 5 or 6 domestic 4kw jobs so it was ok at the time.

 

[pcollins]

Thanks, done. They have until 24th April to respond...

For what it's worth, I've had a reply from DECC:

The Department estimates that its total costs in respect of its own legal fees up to and
including its application for an appeal to the Supreme Court are approximately £83,870.

The court has not yet assessed the amount that DECC is liable to pay in respect of the costs
of the other parties to the litigation.

Actually less than I thought it might be (and it came through a day before the deadline. Most unlike DECC)

 

[BruceB]

"Its own legal fees" will mean something quite specific like the cost of the external barristers instructed for the case. It will not include the time of DECC's internal legal staff or other admin wallahs who spent many happy weeks working on the case.

 

[pcollins]

Yes, I thought that was the case, I guess my request for the total cost of the process allowed them to be this vague!

 

[TedM]

The answer you got was the same that Barker gave in a written answer in the House of Commons last week.

DECC paid circa £783k to Linklaters LLP in Jan 2012. How much of this, if any at all, was for the FiTs case isn't disclosed. Linklaters do a lot of legal work for DECC. I would guess their senior people would be charging at least £1k an hour.