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On 17th February 2022 Durham Council received £320,000 from HMCTS by way of refunds for court costs that they overcharged to defendants. Will Durham be the first county in the U.K. to be shown to have given the money back to the defendants that they overcharged or will they be found to have just pocketed it like the others?

If you are fired up by this issue then why not make your own enquiries of your Council via an FOI?

Find out how much they were refunded here: https://open.substack.com/pub/the98thmonkey450/p/councils-pocket-34m-in-court-costs?r=zpppo&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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Well done Martin🤝 onwards and upwards, just had the letter through to state who is registered at the address to vote and I'm no longer on it so they actually did as I requested and removed me from the full electoral register which they said can't be done🤝👍

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Bravo, Martin!! The Silence DoGood community supports you!

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Martin, I have followed you for a long while. Your words, empathy, sympathy have been a comfort to me. I am not a great writer but do, on occasion share my thoughts with others. I have always been supportive of you spiritually. But I am able to noe contribute financially. Thank youy for all you do.

David

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Such a great letter. Looking forward to seeing the reply!

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Keep it goin'!!! -)

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KUDOS, Martin! EXCELLENT!! Confetti and fireworks -

You LONG and ARDUOUS journey and courage have paid off.

It was a frustrating (maddening) to *read* let alone to live.

Many blessings -

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A tenner says you won't get a response......

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If my 25,000 Telegram subscribers can help it, I'm sure a few of them will call the MP office and hound them with some letters 😉❤️‍🔥

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Ooooh I'll bet Twitter subscribers would LOVE to do the same :-]]

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Empower them to find out what their own council is doing and ask inconvenient questions, like “where the fuck is my refund!?”

A list if all U.K. councils, an explanation of the scam and how much they got back from HMCTS is here

https://open.substack.com/pub/the98thmonkey450/p/councils-pocket-34m-in-court-costs?r=zpppo&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

It could be an easy first step for people to uncover what is going on in their own backyard and take back their power

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