Our fixed fee for this would be £380 which would include the court application fee, preparation of the application and witness statement and attendance at the application hearing by an advocate.
Basically.. "winning" would be 380 GBP, and in my case that fee was recoverable. They also advocated for 8% interest per year because Alpha was being "unreasonable" which was also granted.
I'd ask for a little more clarification on that 'fixed' price, I've paid more than three times that amount to get to the point of the court date and solicitor's attendance fee with them.
The price they mention there is just to get the court application filed and then Alpha get to file whatever defense they think they can muster against it and then it can go to small claims court, whereupon there will be additional fees to pay for the hearing fee and the solicitor's fee to attend it.
Yes, you're right about the court hearing fee, but not about the solicitors fee (that is included in the 380GBP). The court hearing fee is a fee charged directly by the court and it's 150 or so GBP, but it was fully recovered by LPC law as well. Once Alpha is found to be "unreasonable in it's dealings", then almost all legal costs are recoverable.