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Dear Anonymous 3:51,

I am not Gavyn Atkinson, but I have heeded your call nevertheless. You asked for three or four articles in which defendant law firms have asked for the limit to rise. I've done better than that. I've found three or four in which the insurers who are your clients ask for the limit to rise. We are, after all, merely mouthpieces for our clients.

"But Dominic Clayden, head of technical claims - legal at insurer Norwich Union, expressed disappointment that the committee did not go to £5,000. He was also concerned that if the limit were lifted to £2,500, claimant solicitors might seek to increase their claims to have them dealt with on the fast-track, where they would recover costs." 9 December 2005
http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/pi-solicitors-slate-proposals-by-select-committee-to-raise-small-claims-threshold/44165.article


"At the forum itself, there was a largely negative response to raising the small claims limit, except from the defendant lobby, and even then there was an emphasis on improving the process first." 17 March 2006
http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/litigation-blueprint-has-holes/44418.article

"James Dalton, the ABI head of motor and liability, said: ‘...Additional measures, such as increasing the small track claims threshold from £1,000 to £5,000 as we have argued for is also crucial.’ " 22 October 2013
http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/moj-decides-against-increase-in-small-claims-track-limit/5038314.article

Then of course, there are various defendant ejaculations which don't mention the SCT limit, but which don't need to as they make proposals which, if adopted, would arrive at the same result: no payments made. As just one example, here is Axa proposing to reduce the limitation period from three years to three days. (They have the Orwellian audacity to say that this will promote justice. Strangely, they don't mention what they think it would save them in cold hard cash.)
http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/axa-calls-for-three-day-limit-on-whiplash-claims/71836.article

These are the first I came across searching on this website. I could broaden the search to other publications if you wish.

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