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There is nothing innovative about big fish eats small fish and we have a government hell bent on giving these large corporates rains to everything, circumventing referral ban obstacles faced by a small practice for the large players, insurers and their law firms, that's what ABS's are for the PI market and the high street practice.

It is often reported here and elsewhere, that this is an opportunity to make joint ventures with outside investment, as though every small high street practice has an AXA representative ready to do a deal with them!

Insurers were selling all their work to a small number of their solicitors, the ban only effects the small practice, the insurers whose names I do not wish to repeat were given ABS licences the very next day to go on with merry arrangements. Give it to the SRA for timing their application to the T.

It's a shame the profession is being undermined in this way..