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Courts and Tribunals Fees

Proceeding contribution from Ian Murray (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 4 July 2016. It occurred during Estimates day on Courts and Tribunals Fees.

I am grateful to the distinguished Chair of the Justice Committee for allowing me to intervene on him. If there is very little evidence to suggest that there were vexatious claims in the employment tribunal system and if the number of claims in some regions has dropped by a quantum of about 80%, is it not possible to make the opposite argument that fees are a block to justice and that, to get access to justice, they will have to be lowered? If this is about cost recovery, the number of employment tribunal cases is now so low that no costs are being recovered at all.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
612 c642 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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