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This simply will not work, clients will still be expected to pay the difference between any cap and the actual costs. Solicitors aren't going to reduce their fees to the cap as often complicated work can not be done on the cheap for fear of being negligent.

Opponents with deep pockets and poor cases will become even more belligerent as these caps present a target to be reached so that they might price the other side out of the dispute. They will take every point good or bad happy in the knowledge there is a only a limited costs risk.

These fixed costs and the recent rise in court fees combined with deteriorating court service standards are an absolute disgrace and sadly the profession appears incapable of getting this message out, if we were junior doctors there would be press sympathy and a strike but alas it appears that we are locked in a death spiral

I am utterly fed up with the higher ranks of the judiciary's wilful refusal to accept that their grand plans are totally flawed and cause more harm than good in practice

The judiciary ought to be very careful, the courts will be increasingly empty and more and more the preserve of bewildered litigants in person and unregulated chancers...