Legal expenses cover legal and other associated costs including adverse fees and expenses paid in any one year do not always relate to the awards paid in that year, as in most cases the legal costs are not settled until after the award has been made and therefore may fall into a different financial year.The cost of legal expenses made in relation to clinical and, where appropriate, non-clinical claims against NHSScotland in each financial year since 1997-98, broken down by NHS board, is detailed in the following tables: NHS Board 1997-98 (£) 1998-99 (£) 1999-2000 (£) 2000-01 (£) Argyll and Clyde 59,817 97,794 47,611 52,144 Ayrshire and Arran 105,642 8,328 5,721 74,944 Borders 0 4,502 7,751 2,651 Dumfries and Galloway 22,950 62,921 19,887 3,000 Fife 53,083 14,659 13,075 77,114 Forth Valley 21,837 18,716 5,964 52,259 Grampian 39,560 20,626 8,957 59,074 Greater Glasgow 104,001 206,466 166,494 173,941 Highland 8,564 9,541 25,198 45,328 Lanarkshire 19,725 32,178 20,610 75,765 Lothian 137,802 118,972 204,452 139,109 Orkney 0 0 0 0 Shetland 4,983 0 893 827 Tayside 45,972 53,081 29,165 94,358 Western Isles 0 0 0 28,106 State Hospitals 0 0 0 0 Common Services...