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If a medial report is required (on the basis of no pre-med offers), then there will have to be an amendment to Part 27.5 to allow expert evidence and allow those costs to be recoverable without the permission of the Court.

If not we're going to have the following situation.

I can imagine the claimant saying I'm not spending £216 to get a medical report for the 6 month whippy as I'm only getting £875 damages and the D insurer having to make an application to the Court to compel the claimant to have the appointment and the Court will then order that D pay the costs of the application and the medical report.

The alternative is that the costs of having representation on the SCT are met by LEI, so in effect the costs of the proposals will be met by all those who have insurance whether they are liable or not.

From an economists perspective (and I think of the late Prof Arrow) the changes are an interesting case study in real time but a very expensive one for the public, the profession and society at large.

Oh and Raynor, yes I am aware of the bloody maths in the learned Professor's works.