Can lawyers do anything to help underfunded litigants in person? Writing in this week’s NLJ, Peter Thompson QC, the general editor of Civil Court Practice, thinks so. They could, for example, help the litigant apply for fee remission. As Thompson says, the fees are “not chicken feed. Take claims within the small claims limit. A claimant owed £3,001 has to pay £540 for a day in court and for a claim of £5,001 the levy is £790.” Helping with the forms increases access to justice.
11 September 2014
Fee remission
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston
Harneys senior leadership appointments
Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan
Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires
Anthony Collins—Laura Moss
Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector
NEWS
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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