I note the reply of Kally Sahota of Select Claims Ltd to my letter.

He appears to seek to justify his existence as a business by reference to the regulatory regime under the stewardship of Kevin Rousell. I do not accept his premise.

My letter was not, as he put it, a ‘gripe’. I did not do other than point a finger at a simple solution that I am sure the Ministry of Justice would lack the courage to put into effect.

I have written many articles about the failures of claims management company regulation and rampant fraud in parts of the CMC sector. I wholly endorse the Law Society’s published opinion that the CMC sector is nothing other than a middleman business, which aims to take a slice of the available earnings of the personal injury business without adding a shred of value to it.

Furthermore, I have analysed Mr Rousell’s self-congratulatory annual report for 2009/10. He appears to believe that the job of regulating the PI business is all but complete. His regime is, to use his words, ‘a victim of its own success’. Ho ho! No more fraud, then.

As I have said on many occasions, it is easier for someone to obtain authorisation from the MoJ to trade as a CMC than it is for someone to set themselves up as a bouncer or a bailiff. Is it any surprise that the CMC sector is easy to regulate and that Mr Rousell feels entirely justified in publicising his own apparent success?

John Holtom, managing partner, Legal Solutions Partnership, Luton