Former PR consultant Monica Leech loses challenge over rulings on solicitors fees

Former public relations consultant Monica Leech has lost her High Court challenge over rulings allowing a €165,000 instruction fee and certain other costs to a law firm which represented her in a defamation case over articles in the Evening Herald 15 years ago.

A High Court jury had in 2009 awarded Ms Leech €1.87m damages plus costs over the articles but, in 2015, the Supreme Court reduced the award on appeal to €1.25m, plus costs.