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"The judge said although it was reasonable for the claimant to incur these costs, it was unfair to expect the defendant to pay them."

My favourite quote of all time. I work occasionally in clin neg on the claimant side, and if that's not a cry for help for a judge, I don't know what is.

The system is broken. We shouldn't be paying 32k in legal costs for a 3.5k claim, but then a settlement should have been paid out very very early on the claim if the Defence wasn't that strong. The 10k was refused but was there a counter offer? It doesn't say.

I've worked in PI for 13 years as a solicitor and the problem is positions are entrenched - most people on the def side believes most claims should be knocked back for as long as possible and they're all frauds (in the public sphere the idiots at the Mail and the demagogues at the top of insurance companies) have reinforced this idea, and most people on the claimant side believe that there shouldn't be any co-ordination between costs and outcomes because of vague, insincere idea of justice.

Both sides should hang their heads in shame. And the government should hang their heads in shame because they've sided with insurance companies so closely that when they finally put forward proposals in this area for a fairer, more conciliatory system, no-one on the claimant is going to believe a single word they say and fight them to the last drop of blood.

There's not a single honest person in this debate.

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