High Court - Gina Miller - Who is footing the bill?
Discussion
Before anyone comments - this is not a for or against brexit thread, we have one of those!
To bring a case to the high court must cost quite a bit of money, when lawyers are challenging the government its certainly not going to be on a no win-no fee basis!
Who is paying for this? I cant imagine for a second its being personally funded? This is a genuine question as surely it should be transparent to ensure no external (to the UK) influence is applied.
Either nobody seems to be asking or I've missed this, even google fails to answer?!
To bring a case to the high court must cost quite a bit of money, when lawyers are challenging the government its certainly not going to be on a no win-no fee basis!
Who is paying for this? I cant imagine for a second its being personally funded? This is a genuine question as surely it should be transparent to ensure no external (to the UK) influence is applied.
Either nobody seems to be asking or I've missed this, even google fails to answer?!
sjg said:
That was for the Scottish case not this latest one at the Supreme court.It's unlikely anyone will openly admit to funding this case, it isn't Gina Miller but her very rich and powerful friends who will go to any lengths to stop Brexit and financial cost is an irrelevance.
As far as I am aware, it is funded through the Best for Britain foundation: https://www.bestforbritain.org/ i.e. donations. I think George Soros made a large donation.
Edited by Bussolini on Tuesday 17th September 12:40
Four Litre said:
FourWheelDrift said:
George Soros.
Is that fact or thought? Is there any evidence?don'tbesilly said:
That was for the Scottish case not this latest one at the Supreme court.
It's unlikely anyone will openly admit to funding this case, it isn't Gina Miller but her very rich and powerful friends who will go to any lengths to stop Brexit and financial cost is an irrelevance.
Just curious about the numbers....they suggest they needed £40k for preliminary and up to £100k in total.It's unlikely anyone will openly admit to funding this case, it isn't Gina Miller but her very rich and powerful friends who will go to any lengths to stop Brexit and financial cost is an irrelevance.
Given this happened in a pretty short space of time....& I know they suggest they will publish numbers.....but seriously, how do those involved justify sums hitting those numbers?
I'm in the wrong business
mikeiow said:
Just curious about the numbers....they suggest they needed £40k for preliminary and up to £100k in total.
Given this happened in a pretty short space of time....& I know they suggest they will publish numbers.....but seriously, how do those involved justify sums hitting those numbers?
I'm in the wrong business
Top lawyers can charge over £1000 an hour. Given this happened in a pretty short space of time....& I know they suggest they will publish numbers.....but seriously, how do those involved justify sums hitting those numbers?
I'm in the wrong business
Bussolini said:
mikeiow said:
Just curious about the numbers....they suggest they needed £40k for preliminary and up to £100k in total.
Given this happened in a pretty short space of time....& I know they suggest they will publish numbers.....but seriously, how do those involved justify sums hitting those numbers?
I'm in the wrong business
Top lawyers can charge over £1000 an hour. Given this happened in a pretty short space of time....& I know they suggest they will publish numbers.....but seriously, how do those involved justify sums hitting those numbers?
I'm in the wrong business
If we separate the Gina Miller case out from the others
They will have paid a s
tload to solicitors and barristers for the first part in the High Court and a stload more for the Supreme court part - I bet it will be costing hundreds of thousands - probably 500k - would not surprise me if it was a £1m. Aside from the 2 or 3 barristers they have sitting in court they will have lots of solicitor types in the background. All charging extortionate fees no doubt.
I suspect its all coming from private donations though.
They will have paid a s
tload to solicitors and barristers for the first part in the High Court and a stload more for the Supreme court part - I bet it will be costing hundreds of thousands - probably 500k - would not surprise me if it was a £1m. Aside from the 2 or 3 barristers they have sitting in court they will have lots of solicitor types in the background. All charging extortionate fees no doubt.I suspect its all coming from private donations though.
Mojooo said:
If we separate the Gina Miller case out from the others
They will have paid a stload to solicitors and barristers for the first part in the High Court and a stload more for the Supreme court part - I bet it will be costing hundreds of thousands - probably 500k - would not surprise me if it was a £1m. Aside from the 2 or 3 barristers they have sitting in court they will have lots of solicitor types in the background. All charging extortionate fees no doubt.
I suspect its all coming from private donations though.
The snake will not risk her own money however. They will have paid a s
tload to solicitors and barristers for the first part in the High Court and a stload more for the Supreme court part - I bet it will be costing hundreds of thousands - probably 500k - would not surprise me if it was a £1m. Aside from the 2 or 3 barristers they have sitting in court they will have lots of solicitor types in the background. All charging extortionate fees no doubt.I suspect its all coming from private donations though.
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