The Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board (Applications and Appeals) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2020

Travel expenses for solicitors and counsel

16.—(1) Where, on an application for compensation under the Act or an appeal under section 16 of the Act, there is an oral hearing, the solicitor and, if the applicant or appellant was represented by counsel at the hearing, counsel are each entitled on a written application to the Board—

(a) if the relevant distance is at least 20 miles but no more than 50 miles, to a payment of £23 in respect of expenses incurred in travelling to the venue at which the hearing is held;

(b) if the relevant distance is more than 50 miles, to a payment of £46 in respect of expenses so incurred.

(2) The “relevant distance” is—

(a) in the case of a solicitor, the travelling distance between the solicitor’s office and the venue at which the hearing is held;

(b) in the case of counsel, the travelling distance between counsel’s chambers and the venue at which the hearing is held.

(3) Where the hearing is held on more than one day, an application under this rule may be made in respect of each of the days on which it is held.

(4) An application under this rule in respect of expenses incurred by counsel may be made by the solicitor on behalf of counsel.

(5) An application under this rule may not be made in respect of more than one oral hearing held at the same venue on the same day.