The Irish Residential Institutions Redress Board have written to the Law Society of Ireland regarding their (i.e.the Law Society's) role in seeking out and adjudicating on complaints of deductions from [compensation] awards and additional charges being made by solicitors in circumstances where they have already been paid by the Board. The IRIB are critical of the Irish Law Society in its handling of complaints that solicitors have been charging clients for work for which they already received payment from the RIRB.
The RIRB have been so concerned about this situation that their response to these complaints has been put into the public domain. The Irish Law Society also has a notice on its web site informing individuals of their right to complain to about any solicitor who charges legal fees in addition to the costs and expenses paid directly to him/her by the Board for the application.
Comment: Essentially what this means is that the Law Society of Ireland appear have discovered evidence of some solicitors charging complainants an additional fee over and above the fee paid out by the Redress Board to the solicitors for their services, and are not haapy about it. Nor are we!