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Yes its interesting that the comments facility for the Leigh Day article has been disabled. Is it Leigh Day responsible? They themselves issued super injunctions i believe in respect of the Trafigura business.

Looking at both the Leigh Day case and also BNP Parabis and Slater & Gordon, it must now be appearing ever more apparent that
the Claims Handling Society and SRA have completely now lost control over what was the independent adjudication of justice (and had been for probably 1000 years of British Legal History). I simply suspect that their clout and the pressure they could bring over the Legal Services Act 1998 was a minuscule percentage of the Financial Service Sector's clout and pressure (who as most intellectual lawyers (and even some MP's who lack intelligence per se), at the time could see were simply lining up salivating).

But... but .... and it is a hesitant equivocal but ..... how did what was a 'profession' (of solicitors, now claims handlers who sanction prostituting their names on the backs of buses), get to this stage?

We have a major multi claimant, class action firm, getting public funding to pursue a Judicial Review over the potential question of whether there were UK battle field killings (in itself which could be quite an admirable thing), but .... and it is the reason that is being done.

That is not because of the fact that it was done per se, but because of the class actions that are potentially available in the back ground.

How did Judicial Review ever become a public paid vehicle for that to happen outside the UK?

That is questionable, namely whether the Legal Aid system was devised for that (or indeed class actions by the back door).

I am sure it was not.