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No. There are cases deserving of compensation - those who are actually hurt in RTA's for example as opposed to bogus claims where people suffer nothing other than minor shock.

However, my experiences over the weekend suggest it is actually the insurers who are driving this and quite frankly I am appalled at what I have just learnt.

At the weekend I drove my car into the back of a car that was reversing on dual carriageway slip road. The driver announced he was a police officer (he was actually a special constable) and after admitting to my wife and I that he was reversing because he did not want to get stuck in the jam on the carriage way (he had a rugby match to go to) and after seemingly admitting to PCSO's that he was reversing, what happened next at the roadside is frankly astonishing but for another day.

I go home and report matters to my insurers. Straight away I am talking to an ABS who is looking to see if they can treat the matter as no-fault and provide me with a car and everything else so to rack up the costs to the policeman's insurance. I am told theyy are regulated by the SRA. Hang on a minute all I want to do is lodge my claim and explain why I am not to blame. I do not want to speak to an ABS - I do not want to speak with a legal advisor. I am only interested in righting the injustice that I have just felt by ensuring the other side cannot claim on my insurance when he was at least 80% to blame if not 100%. So any person lodging a claim is straight away told they are speaking with XXXXXX Legal Services who is Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. WHAT? REALLY? AM I REALLY HEARING THIS?

After xxxxx Legal Services decide the matter is not one of straightforward no blame, I am then put through to someone else for my claim to be processed.

Utter nonsense. In my opinion what I have just experienced shows everything that is wrong with the idea of PI reform, and the creation of ABS's. All it has done is ensure that Joe Public thinks solicitors are involved at the very outset. I am actually quite disgusted with the process and what does Joe Public think of solicitors now!