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Richard Edwards
OpinionLegal expenses insurance: time for reform?
We need to address the freedom of choice fallacy in LEI.
OpinionTime to resurrect Justice
After the government reshuffled its ‘middle-ranking’ justice secretary, David Gauke should act now to restore the role of lord chancellor
OpinionA private function
To deny the seriously injured the right to choose private treatment would grossly undermine the most important aim of compensation
OpinionWanted: a first-class lawyer
The next lord chancellor should be drawn from the most senior ranks of the judiciary and Queens Counsel.
OpinionDiscount rate saga drags on
The lord chancellor’s procrastination does not bode well. Insurers are stalling a long-overdue change.
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Justice secretary Liz Truss: failing in her duties
The lord chancellor’s reaction to recent media attacks on judicial independence is deeply worrying and plainly inadequate
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Criminal lack of support
Applying the revised Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme to the tragic case of Jo Cox MP demonstrates the regime’s shortcomings.
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Grayling: abdication of responsibility
The lord chancellor deserves censure for his failure to make a decision on how the discount rate should be set under the Damages Act 1996.
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Fraud and inducements
The SRA should take the lead and investigate the presence or otherwise of a link between inducements and fraud.
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Low-level claims: pulling in opposite directions
If on my way to work tomorrow I was struck by a car and rendered tetraplegic
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Ban inducements to help genuine accident victims
Earlier this month the Transport Select Committee held the last hearing of its inquiry into whiplash.
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Special treatment for the City
Perhaps it is just me, but the amount of TLC afforded by the government to the City seems extraordinarily generous. To begin with we have the implementation of the civil justice reforms. All serious commentators agree that they herald a transfer of wealth from accident victims and their advisers (disproportionately ...
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Aviva’s Dickensian justice
Aviva’s self-serving proposal that accident victims should go direct to the at-fault insurer without legal representation calls to mind memorable scenes from Oliver Twist.
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Don’t slash personal injury jobs
The Law Society Research Unit informs me that 14% of all solicitors practising in England and Wales undertake personal injury work. In the north-west, it rises to 34% and in Merseyside to 40%. The unanimous view of Ministry of Justice proposals to slash fees for dealing with injury claims is ...
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PI pressure
I read that a GP was recently found to have unreasonably induced a patient to accept a cosmetic procedure by offering a discount if it was booked with two other patients. This and other failings led the General Medical Council (GMC) to impose 10 conditions on his registration.
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Tackling fraud
Kenneth Clarke is making the important problem of fraudulent whiplash claims unnecessarily complicated. The answer to the problem is not only staring the government in the face, it is positively jumping up and down and screaming.
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Act on referral fees
In recent times three core institutions of society have been rocked by crises.
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It’s not the economy, stupid
The Gazette reported recently there was ‘no evidence that referral fees harm consumers’ according to an ‘economic analysis’.
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Dubious principles
In the first of this year’s BBC Reith lectures, Professor Michael Sandel spoke of ‘a new citizenship’; a politics oriented less to the pursuit of individual self interest and more to the pursuit of the common good. He criticised the policies of the last 30 years as ‘a heady, reckless ...