Ussher claimed a mortgage of £620 a month, put in a standard monthly claim of £200 for food, claimed for fees for a cleaner, which ranged from £135 to £108, and for utility, home insurance and council tax bills, which averaged under £13,000 a month last year.
But away from the soundbites, few supporters ever claimed that the abolition of fees would in itself widen access.
There's the bad side (increased fees, claims of fraud).
Jones had spent much of the previous year in close contact with Scruggs, defending him against the fee claims of Alwyn Luckey and Bob Wilson.
But taking an auditor's sharp pencil to the fee claims of other firms, Judge Kaplan said: "On January 29 , 2000 The New York Times broke the story that Christie's had disclosed to the antitrust division that it had engaged with Sotheby's in the conspiracy that was the subject of this controversy".
Over the last decade the fund has had a great run, claiming a compound annual return (net of fees) of 36%.
HSBC admitted it had repaid £11m of fees and could face claims for a further £300m.
These took effect in July 2013 and for discrimination claims, a fee of up to £1,200 is payable, made up of a £250 claim fee and a £950 hearing fee (these charges also apply to unfair dismissal, equal pay and whistleblowing claims).
But they also allow lawyers to claim success fees of 100% from losing litigants in libel actions – that is, to double their normal costs.
The government had claimed that fees of £9,000 would be charged only in exceptional circumstance.
