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John Hall is quite right. Workplace accidents can involve complex issues surrounding for instance the operation of machinery.
If like me you've listened to a capstan lathe set operator explaining what he does and what went wrong in the operation of the machine then you will understand the complexities involved in even a relatively minor case. And also understand that such a person cannot possibly argue his case by himself in court.

I also have to say that £5000 for such a machine operator is a vast sum of money and to denigrate such as sum as being unworthy of consideration by the courts is something that could only be done by someone of vast wealth. Someone about whom it might be said that there wealth cloud their judgement in regards to what is and is not in reality a reasonable sum of money.


Such work accident cases also used to involve complex areas of law too until the government at a stroke removed workers rights to rely upon European regulations. But whereas lawyers can argue that a breach one of these regulations should still ground a claim, I doubt that an ordinary worker would be able to do so.

And if they don't they will lose.

And they will because they will be faced by a barrister instructed by defendants solicitors and the defendants legal team will presumably have an understanding of the law.Which an ordinary person simply does not have.

Will the judge step in to a the litigant in person? Should that be their job? I don't think so.

I agree with the Chief in what she says but I also agree that nobody important enough to do something about this iniquitous proposal is going to take a blind bit of notice.


And furthermore in relation to soft tissue injury claims apparently people will be losing the right to claim for them at all in the vast majority of cases. And this in a democracy. You couldn't make it up.

And we won't have to because incredible as it seems it is just around the corner and no one is going to be able to do anything at all to stop it. I cannot believe that this country has been brought so low in terms of protection of workers at work by a government that purports to speak about a united country.