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Lord Young in 2010 when commissioned by David Cameron to expose the "compensation culture" wrote in his report Common Sense, Common Safety that "The problem of the compensation culture prevalent in society today is, however, one of perception rather than reality." https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/60905/402906_CommonSense_acc.pdf
In 2013 Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls in his Holdsworth Club Lecture entitled Compensation Culture: Fact or Fiction? https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Speeches/mr-speech-compensation-culture.pdf said that "this may also require a substantive educative effort on the part of government, the courts and the legal profession to counter-act the media-created perception that we are in the grips of a compensation culture."
Despite a fall in claims levels since both of these observations, today the MoJ cites the compensation culture as justification for its proposed measures. Has David Gauke found new evidence he could share with us to overturn the well researched opinions of Lords Young and Dyson?

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