Risky Business

I must compliment Rachael Simpson on providing such useful information about her case where she successfully persuaded the court to allow her insurance clients to renege on admissions the latter had made to the claimants' solicitors, relating to liability and their offer to make an interim payment to allow the claimant to undergo a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan (see [2001] Gazette, 17 May, 16).I anticipate - and indeed hope - that this encourages defendants' solicitors everywhere to behave in a similar manner.

Why? Because I intend to produce her letter to every defendant's insurer and solicitor who writes to me whining that my firm's success fee should be nil in view of the admissions that have already been made.

'Where's the risk?' they enquire.

Ask Ms Simpson.

Roger Bolt, Bolt Burdon, London N1