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  1. Edition 003Tuesday, 13 October 2026Pattern break

    Defra priced the service at £26 and the software it mandates at £632.

    SI 2026/729 fixes the digital waste tracking fee at £26 from 1 October 2026 while the impact assessment laid with it budgets £632 a site for the software — and Defra's approved-provider list, free to join and about 148 names long, is the distribution for a 9,931-site market.

  2. Edition 002Tuesday, 6 October 2026Pattern break

    Priced for 1% of High Court cases, the letter-only stage now settles 24%.

    SI 2026/366 reprices a bailiff's first letter at £79 from 1 May 2026 and excludes business debt from the new 28-day notice extension — leaving commercial rent arrears recovery, which needs no court order, the fastest route on the same fee scale.

  3. Edition 001Tuesday, 29 September 2026Pattern break

    £341 of tribunal fees now buys a claim capped at 24 months’ rent.

    £341 of Property Chamber fees, refundable under rule 13(2), now gates a rent repayment order whose ceiling doubled to 24 months' rent on 1 May 2026 — and which reaches superior landlords for the first time since *Rakusen v Jepsen* [2023] UKSC 9.