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Biglaw bonus season is the most exciting time of the year. After 365 days of billing madness comes the recognition from the firm that all those hours actually had a positive impact. And what better start to a Friday than hearing exactly how big those bonuses will be?

Today Simpson Thacher announced their year-end bonuses. Surprising exactly no one, the elite firm matched the bonus scale Milbank set last week. That bonus schedule — which looks familiar to those following along with bonus season — is as follows:

Class of 2019 – $15,000 (pro-rated)
Class of 2018 – $15,000
Class of 2017 – $25,000
Class of 2016 – $50,000
Class of 2015 – $65,000
Class of 2014 – $80,000
Class of 2013 – $90,000
Class of 2012 – $100,000
Class of 2011 – $100,000

Bonuses will be paid by the firm on December 30th. (Full memo on the next page.)

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As the Harare Wetlands Trust (HWT), we are committed to the provision of clean, safe water for Harare through the preservation of healthy wetlands.

It is common knowledge that wetlands serve as primary water sources for Harare hence the need for concerted efforts to protect then from plunder.

Of late, Harare wetlands have been under serious threat due to construction projects and urban agriculture.

Moved by this, HWT has made concerted efforts to save Harare’s wetlands from further destruction and we were elated by the declaration by the Minister of State for Harare Province, Honorable Oliver Chidawu to the effect that government needs to move a gear up in protecting the water sources.

HWT notes pronouncements by the Minister of Finance, Honorable Mthuli Ncube, in his 2020 national budget presentation; to the effect that government was committed to restoring basic water and sanitation services through maintenance, rehabilitation and upgrading of infrastructure.

Honourable Ncube also highlighted that harnessing of water and construction of dams, weirs, borehole rehabilitation and drilling will form part of efforts to ensure water supply.

In the case of Harare, we would, however, like to highlight that preserving wetlands in their natural state should also be at the core of efforts to ensure water provision in Harare.

Wetlands serve as primary sources of water for Harare and their continued destruction will worsen the already dire situation in the capital. According to the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) the continued destruction of wetlands in Harare has led to the water table drastically falling down.

There is, therefore, need for a concerted and coordinated approach in saving wetlands from further destruction. Moreover, preserving wetlands in their natural state will cut costs in terms of water purification as the wetlands serve as natural purifiers of water.

Corruption and abuse of power have been some of the major factors leading to wetlands destruction hence the need for government to act and put in place stern measures against perpetrators.

Siltation of the Lake Chivero, which is Harare’s main water supply, has also come as a result of wetlands destruction and government needs to act urgently in saving our wetlands.

As HWT we are advocating for the preservation of wetlands in their natural state as a way of ensuring the availability of clean water in Harare. We, therefore, call for an all stakeholder approach (government included) in preserving wetlands.

HWT appreciates Minister Ncube’s efforts in availing funds for the construction of Kunzvi Dam, which is expected to improve the water situation in Harare but more importantly, we would like to highlight that WETLANDS MUST BE PRESERVED IN THEIR NATURAL STATE AS THEY ARE IMPORTANT WATER SOURCES FOR HARARE.

In this regard, we call for the following;

• That a wetland mapping exercise is critical and should be at the core of efforts to preserve our water sources. Government must, therefore, accelerate the re-gazetting of Harare’s wetland map
• Government must ensure that relevant authorities are able to enforce all legislation pertaining to wetlands protection
• Finance Ministry must ensure that government agencies such as the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) are adequately funded and capacitated to execute their mandates

#NoWetlandsNoWater

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So concludes a vicious benchslapping from the Seventh Circuit aimed at Jordan Hoffman, an attorney brought on at the appellate stage to represent a pro se litigant claiming she was discriminated against in various ways by her former employer. The plaintiff lost at the trial level having mostly whiffed on her summary judgment response. On appeal, Hoffman signed off on a brief that… well, had some issues.

For example:

GAMESMANSHIP

Defendants have been “gaming” the system.

That is the entire section of the brief. It’s followed by a section called “The Estoppels” which is totally going to be the name of my next band, but it’s also an incoherent Black’s Law Dictionary dump where plaintiff says “Res Judicata, Collateral and Judicial Estoppel” without much sense of what those terms mean or how they would relate to the matter at hand.

Here’s another actual sentence from the brief:

McCurry experiences a change in fringe benefits; harsher scrutiny; failure to be promoted; lack of opportunities; lack of professional standing; economic sanctions; hostile work environment that led to an employee being shot on the premise, various verbal and physical assaults of African Americans by Caucasian employees of use of gun violence, vehicular assault, amongst other forms of violence, the ever looming threat that a racially motivated altercation or riot may ensue and physical damage to McCurry’s auto amongst actions/activities/conduct.

That is some Charlie Kelly bird law stuff right there.

The kicker might well be this footnote from the opinion:

He signed the brief on behalf of “plaintiff-appellant Mary Madison,” who is not a party in this case. This is yet another way in which the brief is “out of the ordinary.”

Wow.

For its part, the court determined that it had no alternative but to ask Hoffman to show cause why he shouldn’t be sanctioned. Hoffman offered this… curious defense of his brief:

Because we have a duty to “maintain public confidence in the legal profession” and “protect[] the integrity of the judicial proceeding,” Doe v. Nielsen, 883 F.3d 716, 718 (7th Cir. 2018) (quotation marks omitted), we confronted Hoffman about his brief at oral argument. He replied that he is a “solo practitioner” who tries “to get the help of … clients and whoever can provide help to [him]” and then “merge[s] that information.” Whatever that means, it in no way excuses this unprofessional conduct.

Attorneys filing gibberish should be penalized to protect the profession, but the shocking deficiencies of the appeal shouldn’t distract from the fact that the rest of this opinion is exactly why Judge Posner left the Seventh Circuit. The discrimination claims brought by the pro se plaintiff could have gotten tossed a million different ways, but the opinion treats us off the top to an explanation of how someone with no legal training failed to use the appropriate subheadings in her summary judgment response.

No kidding.

This is the sort of unnecessary bureaucratic hurdle designed to lock pro se litigants out of the legal process. Judge Posner’s complaint is that the courts are openly hostile to pro se litigants and try to frustrate them at every turn with mindless technicalities — a burgeoning crisis as fewer and fewer litigants can afford counsel these days.

At least give this litigant the dignity of giving her an unclouded, straight answer for why she’s losing. Don’t let the legalese gum up the works with “Local Rule 7.1(D)(1)(a)–(c)” citations. Just write like a human being, not a lawyer. The audience here is a pro se litigant (and potentially future pro se litigants), so drop the technical stuff and say, “You didn’t make direct answers to all these facts and that meant we took them as true and if those facts are true, then there is no way to win in court,” or something equally straightforward. Writing is only as good as its fit for the audience.

At the end of the day, the appellate brief may be gibberish, but the judges might want to — for very different reasons — take a hard look at their work product too.

(The full opinion is on the next page.)

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Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.

— Former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was testifying WHILE Trump tweeted this, likely making “witness intimidation” a charge that will be included in his impeachment.

As in-house counsel, I’d like to think we offer our business partners a wide array of services, some more quantifiable than others. Sometimes those services are strictly legal, while other times they take on a more business advisory quality. And then every once in a while, we wind up in that weird “it’s not really my job to do this, but if I don’t say something now, shit is going to get weird” territory.

Well, I don’t know if it’s the current state of politics or the general panic of impending holidays or what, but I swear I’ve spent more time this year than usual answering questions, clearing up misconceptions, and stopping the spread of misinformation across the business.

And in no particular order, here are a few of the completely bizarre misconceptions and assumptions I’ve encountered to date:

1. In-house counsel do not “receive a cut” on the contracts we negotiate. Ethical obligations and a general moral ick factor prevent us from doing so. Besides we’d much rather get a percentage of the money we save the company through prevention of general business dumbassery and/or the need to incur outside legal fees.

2. By the power vested in me as the Company Lawyer, I can make all manners of policies and red tape disappear. Yeah, so it’s kind of the opposite. As an attorney, I’m supposed to follow the rules set forth by our company. Not break them. It’s actually in my job description to abide and promote company policies and directives, so yeah…I can’t come up with a loophole for you to get around no indemnification in your contract. One does not simply walk into Mordor and demand approval for a waiver of all damages.

3. And tangentially related to #2, there’s this perception that I somehow get my jollies saying “No.” Contrary to popular belief, it’s not my professional or personal aspiration to say no. Before I even consider using that word, I think through all of the potential outcomes and repercussions that will befall me, and then I multiply that by the hours of pissing and moaning and thinly veiled threats I’ll have to endure courtesy of you and your boss.

4. “My legalese brings all the vendors to the yard, and I’m like, my contract’s better than yours, damn right it’s better than yours, I can teach you, but I’d have to charge…” Yeah, so as much as I’d like my life to resemble a certain iconic pop anthem, I can’t get on the phone with the vendor’s counsel, snap my little fingers, and make them see reason. That’s why it’s called a negotiation. If I could just get people to do what I wanted all the time…we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

5. “Requiring Legal review” per our contract policy actually requires a living, breathing member of the Legal team to review your stuff. An email saying your boss reviewed our new T&E policy and the legal language looks fine is great… but your boss is in Finance. They’re a bunch of barely literate wookies. They don’t get a say on the fine print.

6. I’m basically a genie sitting around in my lamp wait to be summoned by the sales team at all hours of the day or night to turn contracts on timelines that are shorter than the average length of a bathroom break. I live to serve and perform minor miracles in my spare time. Dear kids, it’s like this: Rule number 1: I can’t kill anybody to get this deal done. So don’t ask. Rule number 2: I can’t make anybody fall in love with your half-baked profit-sharing scheme. Rule number 3: I can’t bring your crappy contract back from the dead. It’s not a pretty picture. I don’t like doing it.

7. Being the company lawyer does not mean I’m your personal lawyer. I represent the company. Please don’t bring me your leases, DUI questions, and hypothetical “what if I wanted to get away with murder” scenarios. I’m neither qualified nor authorized to opine on these. Also, my legal degree did not come up with a membership of the month club. I’m not a notary or a justice of the peace. I can’t stamp that real estate document for you, and I can’t marry you to your best friend of 10 years in a tasteful backyard ceremony. Not without some sort of internet ordainment.

8. I don’t know everything. No, really. Let that one sink in. Upon earning my law degree, the dean didn’t upload a bunch of useful skills and knowledge Matrix-style into my cerebral cortex. I have no idea what the average LIBOR rate was last quarter. I can’t quote a single provision from the IRC (never mind the one you requested; for the last time, I am not that guy from Suits). And really, I have no idea if it’s market for you to pick up admin expenses with your talent agencies. You know why? Because neither does the agency. They’re just making that up and hoping no one asks too many questions. Nobody actually tracks this. And if they do, it should be you… the business partner in the talent industry… not the in-house counsel.

9. But despite what I just said in #8, do trust me when I tell you that POS stands for “Point of Sale.” Really. It does not stand for what you would normally associate with that acronym. No self-respecting attorney would take the time to make that a defined term. But it would be hilarious if someone did. #FutureKayGoals

10. And finally, yes, I’ll answer your useless lawyer trivia question. There is a difference between a “J.D.” and an “Esquire.” A juris doctor is bestowed upon someone who has received a law degree. Esquire is a title reserved for licensed attorneys. And if you see someone using either in their email signature block, you should steer clear of them because they’re clearly a PITA. Which stands for exactly what you think it stands for.

As always, my email and DMs (just don’t get lost in my DMs) are open for sharing your own examples of hilarious misconceptions. Please note that while I’ll never use your name, with your permission, I’d be happy to share them over Twitter so that we all can join in the fun.

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Kay Thrace (not her real name) is a harried in-house counsel at a well-known company that everyone loves to hate. When not scuffing dirt on the sacrosanct line between business and the law, Kay enjoys pub trivia domination and eradicating incorrect usage of the Oxford comma. You can contact her by email at KayThraceATL@gmail.com or follow her on Twitter @KayThrace.

Just a few days ago, copyright troll lawyer Richard Liebowitz was being threatened with jail time for refusing to provide a judge with some evidence his grandfather had died. If that doesn’t seem like something most judges would demand, you’re right. It takes a special kind of lawyer to drive a federal court judge to start demanding proof of death from an attorney.

Liebowitz had blown off a discovery conference. When called on it, he claimed his grandfather had died on April 12th, forcing him to miss the scheduled conference. The judge had other reasons to doubt Liebowitz’s claim — like other screwing around he had performed during this litigation, as well as his short, but colorful (read: sanction-heavy) litigation career.

This information was demanded again and again by the judge. Liebowitz again and again refused to provide documentation of his grandfather’s death. Sanctions were handed down, rising from $100/day to $500/day as Liebowitz continued to refuse to respond to the judge’s order. The judge gave Liebowitz one more chance to turn up in court with the proper paperwork. If he failed to do so, he was to be arrested.

Since then, there have been a couple of developments. William Bastone of The Smoking Gun managed to find evidence of Liebowitz’s grandfather’s demise.

A TSG investigation has determined that Liebowitz’s maternal grandfather did, in fact, die in April. But not on April 12, the Friday morning he failed to appear before Seibel.

Jaime Radusky, 93, died on April 9 at Weill Cornell Medical Center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Radusky, a Cuban émigré, lived in a penthouse apartment about 10 blocks from the hospital where he died. In the above Facebook photo, Radusky is seen poolside at the Miami Beach condominium complex where he owned a unit.

Details of Radusky’s death are contained in a probate petition filed in Surrogate’s Court in Manhattan by the two executors of Radusky’s estate, his son Henry Radusky and daughter Sara Liebowitz (Richard Liebowitz’s mother). Additionally, an affidavit sworn by an attorney representing Radusky’s heirs reported that, “The decedent died on April 9, 2019.”

So, the excuse wasn’t complete bullshit. But it was still mostly bullshit. Liebowitz swore repeatedly in multiple declarations that his grandfather died on April 12th. That was his excuse for missing the April 12th discovery conference. Liebowitz had a legitimate reason for missing this conference — the recent death of his grandfather — but for some insane reason, chose to give the judge the wrong date and spend the next six months adamantly swearing this falsehood was the truth.

Liebowitz’s last-ditch excuse — a filing that included some rather audacious assertions about the judge’s alleged inability to do her job — said the death of his grandfather was “too private” to be discussed in court. There’s not much that’s private about death. His grandfather’s death certificate is handed out to a number of government agencies to end benefits payments, cancel voter registrations, and — in this case — allow the state court to appoint a legal guardian for his grandfather’s surviving wife.

There’s more to this story. The Smoking Gun showed up in court for Liebowitz’s “tell me why I shouldn’t throw your ass in jail” hearing. This time, Richard Liebowitz showed up as well. Liebowitz showed up with representation. Good call. Not only was he facing possible jail time, but he had proven in this case (and multiple others) he probably shouldn’t ever represent himself, much less clients. It did not go well for the copyright troll lawyer.

[Judge Cathy] Seibel stated that Liebowitz knew he was lying about the date of his grandfather’s death, but “chose to repeat that lie six, eight, ten times” in court filings that the jurist said were part of a “long-term campaign of deception.” Liebowitz, Seibel remarked, “double-downed, triple-downed, quadrupled-downed, octupled-down, I don’t know what would come after that.”

“I question Mr. Liebowitz’s fitness to practice,” Seibel said at one point during the hearing.

There are many, many good reasons to question Liebowitz’s fitness to practice. This debacle is just the latest reason. Liebowitz has only been practicing for five years, but he’s been sanctioned multiple times and his shady litigation strategies have resulted in several orders to post high-dollar bonds before his clients’ cases can proceed.

His short history is catching up to him. It’s going to be a bit more difficult for Liebowitz to flood courts with speculative invoices.

Noting the significance of a lawyer who “intentionally lies to the court,” Seibel said she has referred the Liebowitz matter to the Grievance Committee for review and possible disciplinary sanctions. Seibel added that her contempt rulings against Liebowitz will require him to disclose the sanctions to other courts and prospective clients.

Good. This kind of litigation — threatening people with statutory damages and long, expensive litigation to extract quick settlements — is garbage. So are the people who practice it and profit from it. Liebowitz hasn’t been around long, but he seems determined to make the Prendas of the world look just a tiny bit better by comparison. If he’s forced to disclose his checkered courtroom past before approaching judges or clients, there will be fewer of each willing to entertain his bullshit.

Troll Lawyer Shows Up In Court To Explain His ‘Dead Grandfather’ Excuse, Gets His ‘Fitness To Practice’ Questioned By The Judge

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As we covered in my last column, investment into legal technology companies (“Legaltech”) is growing, but questions remain as to how much substance there is behind the companies taking on all those investor dollars. I decided to turn to someone who’s seen the process from the inside to get their perspective.

I spoke with Noah Waisberg, co-founder and CEO of Kira Systems, an AI-based contract analysis software company. Waisberg started out his career as a corporate transactional associate at one of the biggest of the Biglaw firms. As Waisberg put it, he looked into his potential future as a partner, and didn’t like his options. “Junior corporate lawyers spent lots of time doing work they hated, and that they weren’t good at.” If all went perfectly, after a decade or more of work he disliked, he might be able to make $6-8M a year as a partner. But things rarely go as planned. Waisberg wanted a career path that he could control himself, one that didn’t require him being unhappy for a decade in the hopes that everything else would pan out just so.

Waisberg saw his opportunity in the inefficiencies he observed in Biglaw contract review. So much money got thrown at reviewing contracts by hand, but even the best lawyers would occasionally make mistakes when repeating endless, mindless contract reviews. If Waisberg could find a way to automate some of the human time required to review those contracts, while also reducing the error rate, he stood to change the industry — and make a pretty penny in the process.

Waisberg and his partner, Dr. Alexander Hudak, put their idea into practice in 2011 by founding Kira Systems. Originally they planned to have a state-of-the-art software solution in place within four months, and then start raising VC money and attracting clients within six. But as Waisberg had already identified, things rarely go as planned. It took not four months, but two years before the software was working reasonably well.

By 2013, Kira had made strides. Contract review time was cut anywhere from 20-90 percent, depending on the contract in question. So the good news was that Kira finally had a product. The bad news was they had little runway and no clients. Waisberg’s wife, herself a Biglaw associate, was funding the company and their growing family off her salary. Waisberg watched as their savings dwindled with each passing month, with the funds going to paying developers rather than keeping food on his own table.

The gamble paid off in 2014, however, when revenue started coming in, first as a trickle, and soon a torrent. The company grew from four employees to eight in 2014. Within another year they were up to 20. Today they’re at 190 employees. Kira currently services most of the top law firms in the US and UK. In August 2018, Kira took on $50M in venture capital funding for a minority stake in the growing company.

A Segmented Market

Waisberg sees the Legaltech VC market as basically split into two baskets. The first basket is the target of what he refers to as companies targeted by growth equity investors. Growth equity investors look to put their money behind companies that have proven the fundamentals of their business model. “If you’re over $10M in annual revenue, you’ll deal with growth equity investors, who are sophisticated.” Growth equity investors aren’t necessarily hunting for the next unicorn, or even seeking a 10X return. Growth equity investing is about shooting for a more relatively modest (for the VC world) 3-5X return, essentially trading lower return targets for more certainty that their investment is going into a viable business that gives their equity value.

Kira, with its organic growth and proven profitability, fit nicely into this category by the time it started seriously looking for outside funding. Other examples Waisberg gave in the Legaltech space would be Clio and LegalZoom, companies with name recognition in their industry and proven recurring revenue streams. Waisberg sees companies like that, which simply need cash to polish their product and potentially scale it up and take their proven model to a bigger market, as a fundamentally sound business investment. Whether in the legal space or elsewhere, financing the continued growth of a proven company will likely always be worth considering.

Waisberg contrasted his company with the other basket, the traditional startup looking for VC backing. These are the companies that have a solid idea, a working solution, but that haven’t proven themselves in the market yet. If they have revenue at all, it’s likely dwarfed by their ongoing expenses. These are the kinds of investments that lead to the stories of $1,000 in stock turning into billions of dollars a few years down the line. But they’re also the kinds of investments most likely to turn that same $1,000 into a goose egg.

If there’s a bubble in the Legaltech VC market, this is where Waisberg sees it. “When interest rates are low, money flows into alternative investments. Legal startup funding is an alternative investment.” Investors are excited to park their money in companies that give them that shot at the billionaire lifestyle, and they are often willing to overlook a lack of sound financial fundamentals in the hopes that problematic business models will sort themselves out with time.

What’s A VC To Do?

One of the most interesting things Waisberg mentioned during our conversation was that, while Kira took on $50M in venture capital last year, the company didn’t need it. Kira has been growing rapidly on its own. The infusion obviously made sense strategically, but it’s worth remembering that relatively young companies can still be grown the old-fashioned way: Good sales, excellent customer relations, and a quality product. Even in the dawning 2020s, when high finance seemingly has its fingers in everything, good ideas and good execution can sometimes make their way to the top without resorting to other people’s money.

Waisberg’s story also gives me confidence that, even if the overall VC market may be experiencing a bubble of overinvestment in the aggregate, the Legaltech segment is seeing real maturation that will stick around for the long haul. Automated contract review and management was a pipe dream at the dawn of the decade. It’s a nine-figure business at the decade’s close. Some lawyers are starting to understand that we have to change the way we do business, and they’re building the tools to do it with.

It may take our industry longer to get there than most, but we are beginning to embrace the future. Whether Biglaw gets to partake in the bounty, or whether it just sees its best and brightest leave to found their own companies, that remains to be seen. After all, things rarely go as planned.

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James Goodnow is an attorney, commentator, and Above the Law columnist. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and is the managing partner of NLJ 250 firm Fennemore Craig. He is the co-author of Motivating Millennials, which hit number one on Amazon in the business management new release category. As a practitioner, he and his colleagues created a tech-based plaintiffs’ practice and business model. You can connect with James on Twitter (@JamesGoodnow) or by emailing him at James@JamesGoodnow.com.

* Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer claims his trial is expected to last two months. The trial is currently set to begin on January 6, 2020. [CNN]

* A law student has been elected mayor of a small town in Iowa. Please let this be the basis of a Parks and Recreation reboot. [Creightonian]

* A large group protested Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s presence at a Federalist Society gala last night in D.C. [Washington Post]

* A man handcuffed for eating a breakfast sandwich on a train platform plans to sue. At least he didn’t miss the most important meal of the day. [New York Daily News]

* The Senate yesterday confirmed a judge to the Second Circuit despite the fact that the candidate purportedly never argued an appeal or tried a case. I’m assuming this candidate at least knew what a motion in limine was… [New York Times]

* A new lawsuit has been filed alleging that a California law mandating that woman serve on the boards of companies is unconstitutional. [Washington Post]

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Jordan Rothman is a partner of The Rothman Law Firm, a full-service New York and New Jersey law firm. He is also the founder of Student Debt Diaries, a website discussing how he paid off his student loans. You can reach Jordan through email at jordan@rothmanlawyer.com.

The 2020 National Budget Was Presented Today

Under the Theme

“Gearing for Higher Productivity, Growth and Job Creation”

The Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, presented the 2020 National Budget to the National Assembly this afternoon.

Budget documents available on Veritas website

The two main Budget documents are already on the Veritas website on the same webpage [link], where they can be downloaded.  They are:

(1)  the full 162-page 2020 National Budget Statement

(2)  the Minister’s 2020 National Budget Speech, which is an abridged version of (1).

Other documents to be available soon

The other documents supporting the 2020 Budget will be posted on the Veritas website as soon as available.  They are:

(3)  the 2020 Infrastructure Investment Plan

(4)  the 2020 National Budget Highlights

(5)  the Estimates of Expenditure (Blue Book), with detailed expenditure allocations

(6)  the Finance Bill

(7)  the Appropriation Bill.

Veritas makes every effort to ensure reliable information, but cannot take legal responsibility for information supplied.

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