Opinion
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RTA portal has worked better than expected, but there’s still much to do
The Ministry of Justice must respond to the pressing need for ADR in the whiplash claims process.
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Personal injury reform – a pain in the neck?
At the end of this month the ‘Official Injury Claim’ portal for low-value road traffic accident claims finally goes live.
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Trust in PI lawyers
It’s time to tip the balance back towards empathy for injured people and put them at the heart of policy-making.
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Electric scooters: proceed with caution
It is difficult to see what information has been gleaned from limited trials.
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Embarrassing? Maybe - but Slater and Gordon has to move on
Pursuing a case against Watchstone was a costly and risky attempt to right any wrongs of the past.
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Clinical negligence: a no win, no fee success story
If the government is serious about saving NHS money it should look at how it pays its own lawyers.
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Hostile approach towards PI claimants does not combat fraud
Claimants should be required to prove their cases, but this must be proportionate.
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Struggling after a career break
I need tips on how I can secure employment – full-time or part-time.
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Medical negligence and the 'compensation culture'
Adam Kay’s swipe at clinical negligence lawyers in his book ’This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor’ is unfair.
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Fore! Ryder Cup claim could hinge on the warning
Spectator reportedly considering legal action: what are her chances of success?
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All about the money
This week’s news tells two very different stories about civil dispute resolution.
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No place for fraudulent holiday sickness claims
The SRA has updated its warning notice to those practising in the burgeoning sector.
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Time to uncover the cover-up
It was in early 2017 that the contaminated blood scandal first found its way onto our desks, and what we came to learn was truly shocking.
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Fairness and injured people
The basis for PI reform is completely without merit, yet the government has been intransigent.
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How achievable are the government's RTA claim reforms?
Patrick Allen asks how the government can put reforms for road traffic accident claims into place in just 12 months.
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Why is an error a ‘blunder’?
Cartoonish language should be avoided when discussing medical negligence if we are to move to a truly transparent learning culture.
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Base reform on fact not whim
Qamar Anwar calls for a debate about how personal injury victims are treated and the way in which insurers operate.
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NHS: learning from mistakes
Reform to the clinical negligence claims process must go deeper than just the numbers.
