NI: Derry solicitor found not guilty of legal aid fraud
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Derry solicitor Damien McDaid has been found not guilty of eight charges of legal aid fraud, the Belfast Telegraph reports.
Mr McDaid was alleged to have submitted fraudulent legal aid claim forms for his personal benefit while working as a sole practitioner between July 2010 and December 2011.
He was practising as a solicitor specialising in matrimonial and children’s court cases from an office at 32 Great James Street at the time.
Mr McDaid told the court the legal aid forms in question contained mistaken rather than intentionally misleading information.
A jury in Londonderry Crown Court yesterday found him not guilty on each of the eight charges by a 10-1 majority.
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