After months of wrangling and delay, we now know the fees that claimant solicitors will be paid under the new, simpler claims process for run-of-the-mill road traffic cases.

A significant shift it makes away from the existing predictable costs scheme is to cut the link between fees and the level of damages. This accepts that there is an irreducible minimum of work that goes into such work, but that the 'swings and roundabouts' will balance the fact that you will be paid as much for a case worth £10,000 as one worth £1,000. The saving grace for claimant lawyers is that most are at the lower end of the scale.

The difficult birth of this new process has overshadowed its potential benefits until now, and it arguably creates a template for other areas of personal injury and indeed other fast-track cases in time. Though a £10,000 case can obviously be more complex than one worth £1,000, the difference is nothing like as marked when compared with a case at the £25,000 top end of the fast-track.

Similar schemes could simplify and reduce the costs of such a large swath of litigation that everyone could relax about the relatively small number that remain. But in parallel to this process, and to the exasperation of some, Lord Justice Jackson continues to focus on a grander plan for post-issue fixed fees across the fast-track. Sometimes, perhaps, big is not beautiful.