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This was never going to be an easy battle for the profession. The Courts are in a shambles (outside of the Bulk Centres) and the wisdom is that increasing fees will increase funding, so that is what they did. I am sure this will be (yet another) hot topic at the annual Civil Court Users Conference, but what else could the profession realistically do? Had the JR proceeded, even if it was successful, it would have cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, taken time, and in the end, the result in terms of Court fees would have been the same. Lobbying only seems to work if you are a large corporation or billionaire with a history of "donations" to the party of those being lobbied. This is just another attack on access to justice, and until the judiciary join the fight (since they are independent) then us lawyers are just flogging a dead horse.