Almost £400,000 was spent by South Lanarkshire Council on lawyers’ fees a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The Rutherglen Reformer report:

South Lanarkshire Council last year spent almost £400,000 on outside legal help – even though they employ 30 lawyers.

More than £120,000 from the total was used to pay external lawyers advising the council on their equal pay fight with almost 3000 staff and former employees.

Since 2005, the council have spent almost £450,000 defending the equal pay actions.

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Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.