Northern Ireland legal aid spend exceeds £100m
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Northern Ireland’s legal aid spend was close to £102 million in 2022/23, an increase of seven per cent on the previous year, new figures show.
A total of 63,976 cases were granted legal aid, of which over two-thirds (68 per cent) were criminal cases and around a third were civil cases.
There were a total of 459 solicitor firms and 621 barristers registered with the legal aid service that year.
The figures are included in the inaugural statistical bulletin from the Legal Services Agency Northern Ireland.
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