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Let's also consider other vulnerable claimants, not just infants - namely all catastrophic injury claims including those brain and spinal cord injured, those with amputated limbs and the elderly - particularly those without mental capacity to litigate and handle their own financial affairs.
There's also the last bastion of legal aid available in birth injury clinical negligence cases, some of these will settle when the client is no longer an infant.
Who will protect all of these clients from an unreasonable CFA success fee deduction? Many law firms are not taking a success fee in these cases and are confident they can still make a profit.
In time, as clients and representative consumer bodies become aware of the differentiators between the true cost of legal advice and the impact on the vulnerable consumer (both legal expertise and financial cost) - they will vote with their feet and make more informed choices.