Costs issue

The presumed conclusion of Callery v Gray does not 'sound the death knell for conditional fee agreements' (see [2001] Gazette, 14 June, 4).

It may well mean a review of costs expectations.

However, I doubt whether it will amount to a select number of after-the-event insurers completely controlling the personal injury market and those solicitors within it, as certain of those insurers would no doubt desire.Access to justice has already been severley curtailed for clients by the totally unnecessary removal of legal aid in personal injury cases.

Further control of the market by a select few will only add to the problem.Paul Horton, Foster Baxter Cooksey, Wolverhampton