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The new court fees are an abomination and I'm not in the least bit surprised if people do whatever they can legally to try and get round their clients having to pay them.

The court system should be a service. We shouldn't have to pay court fees at all let alone £10,000 on a medium-sized clinical negligence claim.

This government seems to think that the case worth £250,000 is relatively small beer so presumably they think that £10,000 as a drop in the ocean.

But to all normal people it isn't. You can't condone abuse of process but personally I can understand people being fed up with the rate of fees that have to be paid and I'm not at all surprised when they try and tweak the system to get round paying them.