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Although the arguments for maintaining the status quo on whiplash are always framed - in this forum - on the selfless basis of preserving the rights of the injured party, that is essentially a straw man.

Nobody is arguing against it.

But there wasn't much whiplash injury about at Runnymede in 1215.

And as is alluded to below, the absurd epidemic of whiplash claims in the UK - regardless of any recent or temporary fall off - is little short of surreal.

Arguing that attempts to reduce it will cost jobs in the PI industry looks like special pleading, quite apart from being a paradigm example of Bastiat's broken window theory.

It is indeed time to move on.