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Expert witness - fees

  • 02-02-2013 9:26am
    #1
    Road-Hog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone out there could advise me if the following Expert Witness(EW) fee sounds a bit excessive. The EW is being hired for attendance at a labour court hearing so not a typical court case, he is being hired as back up in order to be able to define some technical/contractual terms if required so he probably has some 'home work' to do but not a huge amount. The fee being quoted is €2,300 plus VAT which from what I can see is for maybe half a days prep work, and half a day for attendance at hearing at which he may not even be asked to contribute anything. So roughly €200 per hr give or take? Would be interested to know if this is typical or should I look else where?


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  • #2
    NoQuarter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭NoQuarter


    expert witness fees are always crazy but of course look elsewhere! It's like anything, you shop around.


  • #3
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    2-300€ per hour.


  • #4
    nuac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    Road-Hog wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone out there could advise me if the following Expert Witness(EW) fee sounds a bit excessive. The EW is being hired for attendance at a labour court hearing so not a typical court case, he is being hired as back up in order to be able to define some technical/contractual terms if required so he probably has some 'home work' to do but not a huge amount. The fee being quoted is €2,300 plus VAT which from what I can see is for maybe half a days prep work, and half a day for attendance at hearing at which he may not even be asked to contribute anything. So roughly €200 per hr give or take? Would be interested to know if this is typical or should I look else where?

    Appears very expensive.

    A highly qualified medical consultant would be in range of €750 - 1500 a day.

    I suggest you would get a solicitor or barrister practising labour law to give evidence on definitions for a lot less than the figure quoted.


  • #5
    Milk & Honey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭Milk & Honey


    nuac wrote: »
    Appears very expensive.

    A highly qualified medical consultant would be in range of €750 - 1500 a day.

    I suggest you would get a solicitor or barrister practising labour law to give evidence on definitions for a lot less than the figure quoted.

    A solicitor or barrister may not be expert enough to define terms of art in a particular industry. I am puzzled as to why an expert witness is needed at all. What the labour court is doing is construing a contract i.e. deciding what the parties meant when they entered the agreement.


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