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...