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27 June 2013
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Civil way: 28 June 2013

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Court fees & rent deposits grab the headlines

IN HARMONY

The good news: it could have been worse. The bad news: litigants are clobbered with a myriad of court fee increases operative on 1 July 2013 under the terrible trio—the Civil Proceedings (Amendment No 2) Order 2013 (SI 2013/1410), the Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) Order 2013 (SI 2013/1407) and the Magistrates’ Courts Fees (Amendment) Order 2013 (SI 2013/1409). So if you want to escape the increases, you’ve still got a few hours left unless you are reading this on the tram home.  

Civil fees stay as they are except that there is a merger of two detailed assessment fees. The fee on requesting a legal aid only detailed assessment is united with the fee for approval of the costs certificate resulting in a total of sum payable of £195 on requesting the assessment as against the current £145 and £50 respectively. Merger raises an uglier head in family business as the majority of High Court, county court and magistrates’ courts’ family fees are hiked

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NLJ this week: What counts as ‘rent’? Court says labour alone won’t do
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Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
NLJ this week: Clarity on whistleblowing, settlements and tribunal limits
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