What fees are involved in litigation and can they be avoided?

What fees are involved in litigation and can they be avoided?

Litigation proceedings are expensive. When you lodge a claim form you're going to need to pay a fee. The amount of that fee will depend very much on the value of your case. You can ask the court, they've got this sliding scale, the higher the value of your case the higher the fee will be and they'll be able to tell you how much. Now litigation is expensive but for those people who have low incomes there are ways of getting around or getting assistance with that expense. Now in certain circumstances if you can show undue hardship you can get out of paying that fee. And that involves talking to the courts and adhering to their different rules. You've also got civil legal aid of course and that's not on the expenses front, that's on a representation front and a legal help front. But civil legal aid will be available to you if you have a low income, if your income is less than two and a half grand a month or if you have savings of less than eight thousand pounds. There are also certain rules and things and they're all there with the court offices to tell you about, you know if you're on income support. So there are ways of getting around the expense you just need to make sure that you fit into the different pockets to do so.