c Te Tari 'hire o to Karanna rON" Law 8 February 2017 Matt Taylor By email: matt@matthewtaylor.co.nz Dear Matt Request for Official Information Our Ref: OIA353/19 1. I refer to your email of 26 January 2017 requesting the following information under the Official Information Act 1982: 1.1 The amount spent by Crown Law on the Kim Dotcom/Megaupload cases broken down by year and type of cost, including: salaried employees, external counsel, travel and accommodation. 1.2 Information about whether the United States is contributing to any of Crown Law's costs. 2. We have interpreted "the Kim Dotcom/Megaupload cases" broadly, so as to include all legal work done in respect of Mr Dotcom and his associates rather than just work in relation to domestic legal proceedings. For example, the figures we are providing will include time spent in respect of mutual assistance requests. 3. Further, the information set out below excludes costs and time spent in providing advice to other Government Departments in relation to the Kim Dotcom/Megaupload cases. That time is billed to the respective Department and is therefore not a cost to Crown Law. Hours .spent by Crown Law staff 4. Crown Law Office staff are salaried workers and only present invoices for their work in certain circumstances. We are unable to provide a monetary figure for work done on Kim Dotcom/Megaupload related matters; however we are able to give you an estimate of the hours spent on these matters (excluding time spent providing advice to other Government Departments). 5. While generally the legal staff record their time, not all time within Crown Law is recorded. The time recorded will therefore represent the minimum time spent. There is generally no record at all of the time spent by legal support staff and other non-legal staff, although some support staff do record their time so the figures below will include non-legal time as well as legal time. Level 3 Justice Centre 19 Aitken Street PO Box 2858 DX SP20208 Wellington 6140 New Zealand Ph: +64 4 472 1719 Fax: +64 4 473 3482 www.crown I a w. g ovt. nz 3875730_1 2 With that caveat in mind, I have set out our records, broken down by year, in a table below: 6. Year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Hours worked 432.10 7,356.67 4,087.50 5,742.27 4,911.80 3,207.26 4.77 Total 25,742.37 Costs of the litigation I have set out, in a table below, the cost of the Kim Dotcom/Megaupload matters to Crown Law since 2011 (exclusive of costs of advice provided to other Government Departments). The costs are exclusive of GST. 7. 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Total $105,025 $246,583 $203,669 $764,452 $666,765 $1,986,494 $21,817 $39,373 $43,375 $41,980 $24,791 $171,800 Courier $1,105 $480 $234 $1,054 $463 $3,336 Filing fees $7,009 $7,751 $440 $3,255 $4,696 $23,151 Photocopying $7,846 $4,491 $1,568 $3,180 $3,040 $20,125 Professional fees (including research rnateria $109 $7,659 $45 $9,032 $511 $17,356 Tolls/facsim $136 $3 $143,047 $306,340 Barrister/ Solicitor fees Travel and Accommodation (this includes all incidental expenses such as meals and booking fees) Total 8. $464 $464 $139 $249,331 $822,953 $700,266 $2,222,401 Please note that the above figures relate only to work done by private counsel that was billed to Crown Law, and expenses paid by Crown Law. Aspects of these proceedings have been conducted by private counsel at Police and GCSB's expense, and where this was the case these other agencies will have funded private counsel's travel and other costs where required. Conhibution by the United States 9. 3875730_1 The United States Department of Justice is not contributing to the costs of the Dotcom/Megaupload matters. 3 I~ght to complain to the Ombudsman 10. You have the right to complain to the Ombudsman, under s 28 of the Official Information Act 1982, about our decision on your request for information. Yours sincerely Crown Law Sarah Graham Assistant Crown Counsel 3875730_4