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Small Claims (Courts)

: It appears that we agree that this is a hugely important part of the system's current failures and that a remedy is needed. Has the hon. Gentleman considered a remedy such as the one I proposed, which is that the defendant—the person who then has to pay—is required to come back at a fixed time to show that they have paid, to pay then, or to give evidence of how they are going to pay? Once they are let out of the clutch of the court, chasing things up becomes far more expensive, far more long-winded and far less successful.