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Getting the Bill through the house is not a certainty (esp in Their Lordship's place) and even then there is the implementation.

Has anyone pointed out to the Treasury how much these proposals are going to cost? HMCTS will have a monstrous black hole in their finances as the high value claims will almost certainly have fee remission and there will be virtually nil fast track issue fees or hearing fees: are we going to see the absurdity of the issue fee for what will remain a FT case increasing to £15k to try and fill the gap?

Then there's the reduction in IPT across the piece (that is if you're fool enough to believe there will be a reduction in premiums £3.50 per premium x 30 million policies = real money and the losses on IPT on ATE.

As for LIPs going through MID, AskCUE, Medco and the Portal well that's going to work well isn't it? Are we going to re-write CPR 27, are we going to have battles to allocate to FT because of complexity.

Actually I give up, if reason were to prevail it would have done so some time ago,

With a bit of luck this can wither on the vine and be ditched once we have a government with some basic integrity and desire to set out a policy agenda based on evidence and cogent reasoning. (and I say that as a member of the Conservatives).