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Let's get realistic about this - if solicitors are to stay in the market they need to be paid properly. The problem is now the fiction of the 100% risk as clearly there is not a risk at that level in most cases. However the amount being paid is so low that it is acknowledged that solicitors need to charge up to 25% of the compensation. Clients I am finding that understand it and are realistic about it. It is the fictitious mechanism whereby this 25% charge is calculated based on alleged risk which is at fault not the 25% principle in itself and the now ridiculous dog's dinner we are into in relation to costs - remember that client's are supposed to receive 10% more on the generals to try to offset this as well. Those who focus on 100% being the risk are missing the bigger picture, and those who put High Street Lawyers into this situation with their stupid costs rules ought to be ashamed. I am sure lawyers in other jurisdictions simply laugh at us. So allow the 25% plus fixed or inter partes costs and forget about how it is fictitiously calculated!