Recent increases in Court Fees have seen them rise to a point at
which, for large proportions of the population, the cost of
commencing proceedings appears to be unaffordable. In order to
provide access to justice and maintain the right to commence
proceedings, the Court Fee remission scheme has been extended to
provide a reduced liability to pay Court fees to parties to
litigation who are not in receipt of Benefits but have income and /
or savings below thresholds. Applications for remission from Court
Fees may be made up to three months from the payment of a Court
fee.
As the Court Fees in many personal injury claims are not funded
by the Claimants but instead by their solicitors, there are many
cases in which applications for remission from Court Fees are not
made. As the Court, when assessing costs, should not allow costs
which have been unreasonably incurred, are Court Fees which were
paid when the Claimant was entitled to fee remission (and therefore
entitled
