Former solicitor Michael Lynn has brought a High Court challenge against the Department of Justice's (DoJ) refusal to pay his lawyers for certain works carried out during the course of his lengthy criminal trial.
Lynn, who is currently detained at Mountjoy Prison, was imprisoned for five-and-a-half years earlier this yeat after he was found guilty of stealing €17.9m from six financial institutions by taking out multiple mortgages on the same properties.
Lynn, with an address at Redcross, Co Wicklow, claims that the department has refused to pay costs incurred by his solicitors when reviewing thousands of pages of documents in his criminal trial.
The process in question is known as 'Review of Disclosure'.
Lynn claims that the trial, which was a retrial after a jury hearing his prosecution in 2022 following a 16 week-long trial failed to reach a verdict, involved the disclosure of thousands of documents and vast amounts of financial material from financial institutions.
It is estimated that the material took some 150,000 hours to review.
Lynn, the court also heard, had a different set of solicitors represent him in the retrial as the previous solicitiors were unable to act in the retrial.
Lynn brings High Court challenge against DoJ over fees
Former solicitor Michael Lynn has brought a High Court challenge against the Department of Justice's refusal to pay his lawyers for certain works carried out during the course of his lengthy criminal trial.