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19 July 2018
Issue: 7802 / Categories: Features , Civil way , Procedure & practice
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Civil way: 20 July 2018

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More court fee overcharges; insolvency PD changed; bundle diet; HMRC assessed.

FEES OVERCHARGE PART 2

And I’ve spent the past three years berating supermarkets for misleading price labels! Over at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) we saw last time I was with you that it had got it wrong with the fee collected on issue of low value stage 3 protocol claims (See ‘Civil way’, NLJ 6 July 2018 p13). It’s another mea culpa with the Court of Protection, Civil Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Fees (Amendment) Order 2018 (SI 2018/812) which comes into force this coming Monday 23 July 2018 and recognises that certain fees have been levied at over full cost recovery levels. Action is being taken to refund overcharges. Officials are working on detailed arrangements for a refund scheme. Perhaps consideration will be given to a free coffee and a prize draw for those out of pocket, though, more likely, we will see the sacrifice of some staff to finance the scheme and future loss of revenue. The MoJ tells

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