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Don't worry. If you need a comforting example of Government efforts to use IT systems and policy changes to control legal expenditure just consider the Legal Aid, Client and Costs Management System (CCMS). We have had the pleasure of costing cases under its North East Pilot Scheme (now being mandated/extended nationally) for two years. Simply not fit for purpose. Despite years of complaints about constant "system busy" messages, inexplicable log outs, browser compatibility issues, data vanishing from the system, slow load speeds (irrespective of broadband speed) little, if any change. Costs of system to date, estimated conservatively at £35 million realistically probably topping £60 million and rising. Chance of it being scrapped Nil. Still some big IT system providers and the big MROs and Outsourcers will get a nice big pie, little slivers of which they can dish out to the little fish.