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Fri 01 Jan 2007Costs in education cases a 'scandal'A High Court judge has expressed concern about "the scandal of extensive protracted and convoluted litigation and legal costs" in cases relating to the educational entitlements of children.Mr Justice Thomas Smyth made the remarks in a judgment issued this week in which he refused to order the State to discover documents outlining what funding had been provided by the State for education and therapies for autistic twins on whose behalf proceedings were initiated in 2000, alleging they were being denied appropriate education and therapies.