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Anonymous: 16 May 2018 09:11 GMT -

I think you must be missing a big chunk of the discussion.

Plenty of our EU neighbours and countries like New Zealand, Australia, many US States, Malta (just a few examples) either have very low damages for soft tissue injuries, no general damages at all, thresholds and substantial cost limits. The reason is to keep insurance more sensible, stop any litigation culture and just have a more sensible approach to minor injuries.

I am not aware of any public issues that have been created in those places just because the public are not getting a substantial payout for the odd soft tissue injury they may sustain from time to time. I suspect quite the opposite. More fortitude and people getting on with it, quite happily.

So there is a point - the UK is not alone in wanting to limit this type of thing and the UK public will be just fine. Of course the more serious injuries should always be compensated and the complexities of those should always mean specialist lawyers are instructed.

But let's be honest, the position at the moment with these minor injuries is that often young, inexperienced and unqualified paralegals are running these cases so that their bosses can reap the rewards at very low cost in terms of wages/training and so forth. That's why there are CMCs to feed the volume required. They are of course now turning on the CMCs and blaming it all on them. The whole industry has got out of control. We all know this.

If young, unqualified and very cheap paralegals can run these cases, I'm pretty confident that the MoJ can come up with a portal/system which Joe public can navigate.

This is not about access 2 justice. It's about the easy money drying up. Time to change your business model.

But please, feel free to carry on the pretence. You aren't fooling anyone, not even yourselves.