Many of the court fees paid on debt recovery cases are due to go down from 1st October 2007. Fees paid when claims are issued fall significantly. This is a spin-off from the County Court's Bulk Centre (CCBC) computerisation, through which we issue 95% of claims.

For example, you will now save £35.00 when we issue a claim for £2500: the court fee is now £75.00 where it was £110.00. On a claim of £7500.00 you will save £50.00 with the fee down to £190.00 from £240.00. If you issued the same case in your local county court you would pay £35.00 more so we use the CCBC whenever we can.

Allocation fees are also down for claims under £5000, a massive fall from £100 down to £35. But above £5000, they rise from £100 to £200.

Lovetts CaseManager homepage has a PDF summary of the fees that have changed for debt recovery. Go to www.lovetts.co.uk and log-in.

If you want to see the full Statutory instrument go to the OPSI (Office of Public Sector Information) website http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/uksi_20072176_en_1

For a PDF summary of the key changes, click here

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