Provision of Defence Personal Injury Legal Services

The Education Authority would therefore seek to establish a Contract with up to 4 firms of

solicitors for the Provision of Defence Personal Injury Legal Services (i.e. defence of

actual or anticipated High Court or County Court personal injury proceedings served upon

the Education Authority, Libraries NI, a Board of Governors of a controlled school or a

Board of Governors of an Irish Medium School or the Trustees / Board of Governors of a

Catholic Maintained School - and if necessary the undertaking of a separate initial claims

investigation function- as well as the defence or prosecution of an appeal from any court

decision given in any such proceedings and/or the bringing of third party proceedings or

associated contribution proceedings); the conduct of all such proceedings or investigative

function to be carried out in accordance with the Contractual Arrangements. This contract

will be used on an as-and-when-required basis. EA does not make any commitment

regarding the frequency or value of work to be allocated. Contractors shall understand

that the workload is indeterminate. Accordingly, no form of exclusivity is conferred, nor is

any volume guarantee granted by EA in relation to the provision of work to the Contractors. Although the majority of work will be allocated on a rotational basis, EA

reserves the right at its absolute discretion to allocate all or any work under this contract

to the Education Authority Solicitors or another legal services provider instead of

allocating the work to either of the Contractors.