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"I'm not actually sure what the real reason for the reforms is"

This plaintive bleat is eventually heard in every one of the many threads beneath Gazette articles about the PI reforms first mooted by George Osborne in November 2015.

And I'm afraid it illustrates the bubble which PI lawyers continue to inhabit.

Whiplash has been a reliable source of income. It ostensibly provides justifiable compensation for the injured.

But actually most people no longer believe that, if they ever did. Ask the man on the Clapham omnibus and I guarantee he will associate whiplash with fraud and "nice little earners" not to mention cash for crash.

And - like most of his pronouncements - he's going to be broadly correct.

The UK's attitude to whiplash is out of kilter with that of other Western nations and is now basically risible.

Abolishing - or severely limiting - whiplash compensation is a laudable goal of public policy per se and requires no further justification.

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