Earlier this month, legal action brought by the Asbestos Victims Support Group resulted in the government deciding that individuals exposed to asbestos, and suffering the cancer mesothelioma as a result, would be exempt from paying newly introduced court fees in certain cases.
While on the face of it this appears a victory, and hailed a ‘landmark decision’, the reality is that only a minority of those affected by this serious illness will have the newly introduced court charges waived.
The support group argued that the fees were unfair to those affected by mesothelioma, and won, or so it seems, except for the fact that most meso sufferers will not be eligible for the exemption due to a relatively low threshold.
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