The Home Office has spent £63.6m on the legal costs for the families of the 96 victims of the 1989 Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster, with London human rights firm Birnberg Peirce and Partners taking the lion’s share of fees.
Documents released by the government showed a breakdown of fees of lawyers representing the victims’ families between December 2012 and June 2016. Birnberg received the largest sum of £34.2m for representing 74 families.
