I am grateful to Gerard McDermott QC for sending me details from the American Bar Association Journal of a £2.5 million case in Powhattan Circuit Court where a $2.5 million dollar action failed because the court fee was incorrect by $2. There is a danger in assuming that this danger is confined to o...
From the Lexis Nexis dispute resolution website:
“Dispute Resolution analysis: minutes of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee released this week confirm forthcoming changes to trial fees which are likely to come into force in April 2015. The main changes are to abolish the refund of trial fees for early settlement (balanced by an increase in the time allowed for paying the fee) and a streamlining of the process for automatic strike out for non-payment of trial fees.”