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@Ian Newbery Commented on: 22 February 2017 17:54 GMT:

"...Imagine sitting down with a client and advising them they had a claim worth £5000 and that you proposed they spend £25000 pursuing the claim, let alone £75000. You would have told them that I
if they won they would get costs but only about 60 to 75 percent of what they had laid out.

I expect they would have said even the lower figure was entirely disproportionate.

That's how the system used to work. .."

I know I know. The character I took issue with below about pursuing a case on the basis of proportionate costs and the person of moderate means test under the old LAA is class example of the Legal Plagiarists Course (and yes, I do blame the Law Society and SRA for that) ....