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Small Claims (Courts)

In the parable of the good Samaritan, the victim fell amongst thieves. I am an accountant who has fallen amongst lawyers, by the look of things. As an accountant, I found that the small claims court, or the small claims track as it is now called, worked in terms of clarity, speed and helpfulness, as the right hon. Gentleman said, but it hit the buffers when it came to enforcement. The measures suggested by the report are good, but I am not sure that they will have any impact on the ““won't pays””, the people who move around and are not in settled employment. That is where I encountered the most persistent problems when I tried to claim to assist clients.