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The sole idea behind fixed costs for clin neg claims is to reduce costs.

However, wasn't something was done about the whole excessive costs thing already I seem to recall? Jackson something or other?

Someone interested in this type of thing should probably be doing a freedom of info request to the NHSLA for average level of costs paid ((not claimed) which is what they often refer to for misleading examples of outrageous costs) for various damages bandings and what level of costs was paid per average in each band for cases commenced pre Jackson and post Jackson regime for similar conduct periods (At present there is not a full range of settlement as there will be few cases of more than 2 years conduct post Jackson where costs have settled)

Surely the lack of a high success fee and substantially reduced ATE policies can be shown to reduce costs paid by around 50%? add to this costs budgeting and a new proportionality test and it can probably be shown that even without fixed costs there is going to be a huge drop in the level of costs paid in clin neg costs