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Higher limit for small claims court urged

The £1,000 claim limit in the small claims court should be raised, according to a committee of MPs. The constitutional affairs committee argues that the limit has not kept pace with inflation and has the effect of excluding people from justice. Today’s report stresses that the limit means even the most minor of personal injury… Read more »

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Government wasting ‘billions’

Government departments are repeating ‘basic’ errors and wasting billions of pounds in the process, a committee of MPs warns today. A review of its own investigations over the ten years by the public accounts committee finds that departments are failing to learn from their mistakes, or those made in other areas of the public sector…. Read more »