DOUBLE WHAMMY FOR LITIGANTS
Well, someone has to pay for the sanitiser. Fast on the heels of the scrap of discount for commencing online (see ‘Civil way’, NLJ 26 March 2021, p22) comes news of the plan to hike fees across the board in civil, family and Court of Protection business (with even the magistrates’ courts set to be hit, which you can probably bear, although I would prefer not to know what an applicant has in mind when seeking