Dear Caggers Just to explain the reason we sought a civil legal aid certificate in the case of Sharp v. BOS (and we have other legal aid applications and other bank charge cases before the courts too) is not for Govan Law Centre to be paid a fee (we have always undertaken our bank charges work for free in the UK public interest) but rather because these cases have been remitted to the ordinary court (at the instance of the banks, where there is no protection against expenses) and therefore it would have been professionally irresponsible for me to run a case and expose my client to an award of expenses if we were to lose. As you may

Heres something Alphageek posted a few years back. I used something similar and got the charge removed ( I paid the tax though) Thank you for sending a Council Tax Adjustment Notice in respect of ADDRESS. I note you have included a line detailed as Recovery Costs in the amount of �50.00 on the notice. I am surprised an experienced department the size of PLACE Council's Council Tax department would include monies to which they are not entitled to claim without a relevant court order. It is quite clear on the summons document itself and your very own document entitled COUNCIL TAX SUMMONS GUIDANCE NOTES that you would have

Slip of the finger eh, no probs,