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High Court fees are going to have the same effect as the costs budget figures for the total cost of a claim. The issue is not going to be who is right and who is wrong i.e. justice, but who has the pockets deep enough for the fight. That isn't the way it should be. What about a compulsory summary judgment question for all Judges at CMC? If Defendants and Claimants know that there is a probable early day of reckoning in every case with no interlocutory costs consequences for the unsuccessful claimant, that might encourage settlement. Simply paying more for a system that would rather kill itself than help the innocent claimant does not assist.

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