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Anonymous
Commented on: 2 January 2019 08:42 GMT

Who are these firms? What is the industry that no one will miss?

Are you suggesting that any lawyer who has ever represented a person injured in an RTA and who has suffered soft tissue injury, or any lawyer who has represented a person injured by the negligence of their employer or other person and has a claim worth less than £2000 in general damages has "plagued the profession".

Assuming you are talking about those people or firms who have knowingly made fraudulent claims (and I agree such people and firms 100% exist), then do you seriously believe the answer is to take away the ability to be represented, and indeed damages from the vast majority of genuine claimants?

Is the answer not legislation to reduce fraud? After all this Act started as a consultation with a forward which put that as the primary need for legislation.

Fraud exists in all claims, as they involve obtaining pecuniary advantage. If you take the logic of this Act to it's logical conclusion then perhaps we should make all claims of whatever type illegal? That would get read of all fraud and all need for legal representation.