Incredible £2,697 spent on legal costs by Wirral Council in dispute with Volker Laser

Incredible £2,697 spent on legal costs by Wirral Council in dispute with Volker Laser

Wirral Council legal invoices page 19 Volker Laser Eversheds LLP

Incredible £2,697 spent on legal costs by Wirral Council in dispute with Volker Laser

                                                               

Wirral Council legal invoices page 19 Volker Laser Eversheds LLP
Wirral Council legal invoices page 19 Volker Laser Eversheds LLP

I’ve erased some of the black boxes on legal invoices of Wirral Council and came across this one for £2,697 in a dispute that Wirral Council had with Volker Laser. Sadly Volker Laser is not the name of a Bond villain’s company but instead a civil engineering firm.

Helpfully on Evershed’s website they tell us the work was for Lucy Frith of Eversheds "defending a series of adjudications arising out of a remediation contract for a public sector employer" (at least that’s a reasonable guess considering it wasn’t any of the other three). So what does this actually mean when translated out of lawyer-speak?

Wirral Council’s Technical Services department contracted Volker Laser to do civil engineering work for them. Wirral Council weren’t happy that the work was done how they wanted, Volker Laser disagreed with this so Wirral Council got their lawyer involved to sort it out. This is only an “interim invoice” so who knows how much that fiasco actually cost the taxpayer in total? No wonder they wanted to black out the name of the contractor involved before releasing the invoice!

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