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@Ian Newbury. No it isn't the High Court that is the problem. The Government have adopted a policy that the court fees should make a profit. After all it makes perfect sense, does it not, that a person who has nowhere else to turn to resolve their problem, whose last resort is call on a court of law, should have to pay an extra tax to be wasted by the Government.

Those dead people with estates worth over £1,000,000 certainly need our help, after all, and I for one am glad that my client, Mr X who wants a divorce is having to pay to help that happen.

It would be nice if Mr X actually got a good service in return, but he doesn't - we told him he was divorced last week, and he celebrated the good news. We had to call him today to advise him he wasn't divorced, after all. Liverpool County Court (or family court or whatever today's title is) has actually divorced the wrong person by mistake and has revoked his decree absolute! Without even so much as an apology, or an explanation of what they are going to do to put it right (or when)...