Bailey’s legal costs likely to exceed several million euro

Ian Bailey’s lawyers are looking for legal costs to cover items not normally included in costs orders, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.

The full costs after Mr Bailey won his Supreme Court appeal against a decision to extradite him to France for questioning about the death of film maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier in west Cork in 1996 are likely to exceed several million euro, according to legal sources.

The items that would not normally be covered include the cost of a French lawyer, Martin Giblin SC, for Mr Bailey, told the five-judge Supreme Court yesterday.