India, Oct. 12 -- The state Assembly on Monday referred an amendment to the Kerala Court Fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1959, to the Subject Committee for consideration.

The amendment, moved at the request of Chief Minister V D Satheesan, proposes that additional court fees collected in cases settled out of court should not be refunded.

Moving the amendment in the Assembly, Satheesan said the proposal followed practical difficulties in refunding additional court fees paid by litigants in cases settled through alternative dispute resolution under Section 89 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.

He said 70 per cent of the amount collected for the Legal Aid Fund was diverted to the Advocates Welfare Fund and 30 per cent to the Advocates Cl...