Osborne: surprise announcement
Chancellor George Osborne’s announcement yesterday that the small claims limit for personal injury (PI) cases will rise to £5,000, and that general damages for “minor” whiplash claims will be abolished, has sent shockwaves through the market.
Such is their seismic impact on lawyers that we have been covering the reforms on our sister site Legal Futures. There you can find these articles:
Autumn Statement: £5k small claims limit and end to general damages in whiplash
Slater & Gordon’s share price collapses in response to Autumn Statement
Breathing space for PI lawyers? General damages reform will not come in until 2017
Please can everyone consider and sign the below petition to prevent the proposed changes to the Small Claims Track:-
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/113810
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