diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/Umbraco.Web.csproj b/src/Umbraco.Web/Umbraco.Web.csproj
index e3c8c187ae..318c23414b 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/Umbraco.Web.csproj
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/Umbraco.Web.csproj
@@ -1629,7 +1629,6 @@
     </Compile>
     <Compile Include="WebServices\XmlDataIntegrityController.cs" />
     <Compile Include="WebViewPageExtensions.cs" />
-    <Compile Include="_Legacy\Utils\JSONSerializer.cs" />
     <None Include="..\Umbraco.Web.UI\Views\web.config">
       <Link>Mvc\web.config</Link>
     </None>
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/_Legacy/Utils/JSONSerializer.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/_Legacy/Utils/JSONSerializer.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index f5eaf708a0..0000000000
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/_Legacy/Utils/JSONSerializer.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-using System;
-using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
-using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
-
-namespace Umbraco.Web._Legacy.Utils
-{
-    /// <summary>
-    /// The built in JavaScriptSerializer does not allow you to export real JavaScript
-    /// objects, functions, etc... only string values which isn't always what you want.
-    /// See <see cref="example"/>
-    /// 
-    /// Override the JavaScriptSerializer serialization process and look for any
-    /// custom "tags" strings such as a @ symbol which depicts that the string value 
-    /// should really be a JSON value, therefore the output removes the double quotes.
-    /// 
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <example>
-    /// If you want to output:
-    /// {"myFunction": function() {alert('hello');}}
-    /// The JavaScriptSerializer will not let you do this, it will render:
-    /// {"myFunction": "function() {alert('hello');}"}
-    /// which means that JavaScript will interpret it as a string.
-    /// This class allows you to output JavaScript objects, amongst other things.
-    /// </example>
-    [Obsolete("Remove this for v8")]
-    internal class JSONSerializer : JavaScriptSerializer
-	{
-
-		public new string Serialize(object obj)
-		{
-			string output = base.Serialize(obj);
-
-			//replaces all strings beginning with this prefix to have no double quotes
-			Regex regex1 = new Regex(string.Format("(\"{0}(.*?)\")+", PrefixJavaScriptObject),
-				RegexOptions.Multiline
-				| RegexOptions.CultureInvariant
-				| RegexOptions.Compiled
-			);
-			string result = regex1.Replace(output, "$2");
-		
-			return result;
-		}
-
-		private const string PrefixJavaScriptObject = "@@@@";
-
-		/// <summary>
-		/// method for a string to be converted to a json object.
-		/// </summary>
-		/// <param name="s"></param>
-		/// <returns>A string formatted with a special prefix</returns>
-		/// <remarks>
-		/// This essentially just prefixes the string with a special key that we will use
-		/// to parse with later during serialization.
-		/// </remarks>
-		public static string ToJSONObject(string s)
-		{
-			return PrefixJavaScriptObject + s;
-		}
-
-	
-	}
-
-	
-
-}
-
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/Trees/XmlTree.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/Trees/XmlTree.cs
index def2bbb9b0..c6dfd4c758 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/Trees/XmlTree.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/Trees/XmlTree.cs
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
 using Umbraco.Core.IO;
 using Umbraco.Web.UI.Pages;
 using Umbraco.Web._Legacy.Actions;
-using Umbraco.Web._Legacy.Utils;
 using Action = Umbraco.Web._Legacy.Actions.Action;
 
 namespace umbraco.cms.presentation.Trees
@@ -48,7 +47,7 @@ namespace umbraco.cms.presentation.Trees
 
 		private void Init()
 		{
-            m_JSSerializer = new JSONSerializer { MaxJsonLength = int.MaxValue };
+            m_JSSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer { MaxJsonLength = int.MaxValue };
 
 			switch (m_TreeType)
 			{
@@ -70,7 +69,7 @@ namespace umbraco.cms.presentation.Trees
 
 		}
 
-		private JSONSerializer m_JSSerializer;
+		private JavaScriptSerializer m_JSSerializer;
 		private SerializedTreeType m_TreeType;
 
 		/// <summary>
@@ -717,7 +716,7 @@ namespace umbraco.cms.presentation.Trees
 				metadata.Add("source", node.Source);
 
 				//the metadata/jsTree requires this property to be in a quoted JSON syntax
-				JSONSerializer jsSerializer = new JSONSerializer();
+				JavaScriptSerializer jsSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
 				string strMetaData = jsSerializer.Serialize(metadata).Replace("\"", "'");
                 dataAttributes.Add("umb:nodedata", strMetaData);
 
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/controls/Tree/JTreeContextMenu.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/controls/Tree/JTreeContextMenu.cs
index 8935aa9bdf..cfaf6bb2cd 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/controls/Tree/JTreeContextMenu.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/controls/Tree/JTreeContextMenu.cs
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
 using Umbraco.Core.Logging;
 using Umbraco.Core;
 using Umbraco.Web._Legacy.Actions;
-using Umbraco.Web._Legacy.Utils;
 using Action = Umbraco.Web._Legacy.Actions.Action;
 
 namespace umbraco.controls.Tree
@@ -14,7 +13,7 @@ namespace umbraco.controls.Tree
 		public string RenderJSONMenu()
 		{
 
-			JSONSerializer jSSerializer = new JSONSerializer();
+			JavaScriptSerializer jSSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
 
 			jSSerializer.RegisterConverters(new List<JavaScriptConverter>() 
 					{ 	
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/controls/Tree/JTreeContextMenuItem.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/controls/Tree/JTreeContextMenuItem.cs
index f49bc75a50..c624c429c2 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/controls/Tree/JTreeContextMenuItem.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/controls/Tree/JTreeContextMenuItem.cs
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ using System.Text;
 using Umbraco.Core;
 using Umbraco.Core.Services;
 using Umbraco.Web._Legacy.Actions;
-using Umbraco.Web._Legacy.Utils;
 
 namespace umbraco.controls.Tree
 {
@@ -56,12 +55,6 @@ namespace umbraco.controls.Tree
 				data.Add("icon", a.Icon);
 			}
 
-			//required by jsTree
-			data.Add("visible", JSONSerializer.ToJSONObject("function() {return true;}"));
-			
-            //The action handler is what is assigned to the IAction, but for flexibility, we'll call our onContextMenuSelect method which will need to return true if the function is to execute.
-			data.Add("action", JSONSerializer.ToJSONObject("function(N,T){" + a.JsFunctionName + ";}"));
-
 			return data;
 
 		}