Opinion – Page 4
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OpinionCareless driving licence
No one in government remembers the last time a lord chancellor introduced something as short-sighted as these personal injury reforms.
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OpinionGetting it right for PI victims
A review of the cap on criminal injury compensation is long overdue.
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OpinionForensic MPs finally nail insurers over their PI spin
The debate over personal injury reforms is filled with rhetoric and self-interest. Today’s committee session was a breath of fresh air.
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OpinionHonest dialogue needed on PI reforms
Change is necessary but that shouldn’t lead to barbed counter-arguments and an unbalanced package of measures.
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OpinionClin neg fixed fees: can the NHSLA change its ways?
Lawyers on both sides must have their say, but the success of fixed fees will rest on whether the litigation authority can break the habit.
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OpinionDiscount rate saga drags on
The lord chancellor’s procrastination does not bode well. Insurers are stalling a long-overdue change.
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Propaganda as bad as the MoJ’s
It is hard to retain respect for institutional lobby groups such as APIL that refuse to acknowledge the unhealthy elements of the PI sector.
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OpinionThese PI reforms ignore the most vulnerable road users
All the attention is on potential fraud caused by car drivers – where is the much-needed protection for those on two wheels?
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OpinionMy alternative legal awards for 2016
The usual mixture of foul-ups and faux pas made headlines this year – here’s a selection of the best.
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OpinionWill patients know when they need a lawyer?
The NHS Litigation Authority’s mediation service will work best when claimants are legally represented.
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OpinionOut to get lawyers?
The death of lawyers has been greatly exaggerated, but a concerted bid to sideline them from dispute resolution is real cause for alarm.
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OpinionTruss sounds death knell for claimant PI sector
Lord chancellor appears even keener than her predecessors to go after claimant lawyers.
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OpinionJeremy Hunt’s unhealthy proposal
The health secretary’s rapid redress scheme is another exercise in trashing the value of lawyers.
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OpinionTruss juggles with Osborne's whiplash baby
Claimants can allow themselves a small celebration today.
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OpinionHere’s how I’d tackle the whiplash culture
If the government must do something, it’s looking in the wrong place.
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The truth about whiplash
It is likely that whiplash claims have not dramatically fallen but instead been ‘reclassified’.
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OpinionWill the appeal court turn its nose up at the sale of PI cases?
True value of pre-Jackson caseloads is difficult to work out.
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OpinionGive CMCs the cold shoulder
A ban on cold calls and texts could clean up the reputation of the PI sector.
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OpinionPI: undermining the experts
Expanding MedCo could seriously compromise the quality of medical expert evidence.