Original sentence: Equality Commission for Northern Ireland responded to criticism for spending more than £250,000 of taxpayers' money on the case; the head of the commission responded that the spending took place over a period of four-and-a-half years and it was less than 20% of their budget.In August 2019, Gareth Lee, the plaintiff in the case, instructed his lawyers to challenge the Supreme Court's ruling at the  European Court of Human Rights(ECHR)
Edited sentence: The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland was criticised by the Northern Irish media for spending £500,000 of taxpayers' money on the case; the head of the commission responded that it was less than 20% of their budget