Mr. Jim Daniell

Jim Daniell, chairman of the Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission, said that the sums paid to each barrister and solicitor's practice may represent payments for work covering a number of years and for a variety of cases.

"It is also important to bear in mind that the amount an individual receives year on year can fluctuate widely," Mr Daniell added.

New recruit Jim Daniell, 57, will be paid £436 a day as chair of the Legal Services Commission, which administers publicly-funded legal aid.

Mr Daniell has extensive experience in justice issues and will work an average of eight days a month over the next three years.> Public Accounts Committee chairman John O`Dowd said the position was filled against the backdrop of wrangling over public sector pay.

"Appointments of this nature and payments of this scale do nothing for public confidence in such quangos," he said.

"We have a situation where we have classroom assistants and postal workers on strike, people who work hard and do difficult jobs, looking for better pay and conditions.

"People see that these appointees can get such large sums of money and it does nothing for public confidence."

Mr Daniell was director of criminal justice in the Northern Ireland Office from 1994 to 2000 and chaired the Criminal Justice Review after the 1998 Belfast Agreement.

He also worked in the Home Office.

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New recruit Jim Daniell, 57, will be paid £436 a day as chair of the Legal Services Commission, which administers publicly-funded legal aid.

Mr Daniell has extensive experience in justice issues and will work an average of eight days a month over the next three years.

Public Accounts Committee chairman John O`Dowd said the position was filled against the backdrop of wrangling over public sector pay.

"Appointments of this nature and payments of this scale do nothing for public confidence in such quangos," he said.

"We have a situation where we have classroom assistants and postal workers on strike, people who work hard and do difficult jobs, looking for better pay and conditions.

"People see that these appointees can get such large sums of money and it does nothing for public confidence."

Mr Daniell was director of criminal justice in the Northern Ireland Office from 1994 to 2000 and chaired the Criminal Justice Review after the 1998 Belfast Agreement.

He also worked in the Home Office.

New recruit Jim Daniell, 57, will be paid £436 a day as chair of the Legal Services Commission, which administers publicly-funded legal aid.

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2. The review will be carried out by a team of Government officials , led by Jim Daniell , the Director of Criminal Justice at the Northern Ireland Office.The team will be assisted by five independent assessors.The membership of the team and biographical details of the independent assessors are set out in Appendix B.

3. As set out in the Good Friday Agreement the review will work in parallel with the Policing Commission , and will report to the Secretary of State by Autumn 1999.

4. The review team will be located in the Interpoint Building , York Street , Belfast.
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Jim Daniell , Director of Criminal Justice at the Northern Ireland Office.Leader of the Review Team , which will include ;.

The Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, Mr Jack Straw MP, has appointed Mr Jim Daniell as chair of the Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission (the Commission).