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Hello again. The penny just dropped. People can correct me if I am wrong, but some firms are, due to competitive pressure, having to take on cases, whether in the County Court or at Employment Tribunals, where they are having to fund the court / tribunal fees themselves, ... and it hurts. Many High Street firms are simply not doing well enough to be able to fund court fees easily, if, sometimes, at all. With which we are back to my posts on the Law Society failing to come up with a meaningful plan on how to make High Street practice more profitable.

I'm sure we've all got our own views on why so many High Street firms are in such a parlous state financially. Personally, I think it has got to be the existence of the parallel court that is the Legal Services Ombudsman. No court fee payable up front there. Indeed, we have to pay £400.00 to be investigated. People might like to reflect on how much easier it might be to sue us if the county court and high court had no court fees.

In addition, I think that letting everybody get a law degree and pass the legal practice course much as anyone taking a driving test can pass it if even slightly OK behind the wheel has led to a truly massive increase in the number of solicitors, unsurprisingly not matched by an increase in genuinely profitable legal work. The laws of supply and demand being what they are having led to firms offering to pay court / tribunal fees on cases that in an earlier era, firstly, might never have happened, and, secondly, if happened would have been more affordable for firms and on cases that might have been better quality cases.

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