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Showing its teeth: Law Society invokes Magna Carta as it launches legal action against court fees’ ‘flat tax’

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Legal Business
23 February 2015
Legal regulation

The Law Society is challenging the government’s decision to increase certain court fees by over 600% and has issued a pre-action protocol letter for judicial review saying the move would be tantamount to ‘selling justice’.

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