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“There will be legal challenges” if med neg fees set too low, SCIL chair predicts
Wednesday, 7 October 2015The Department of Health (DoH) will face legal challenges if fixed fees for medical negligence cases are set at too low a level, the chair of the Society of Clinical Injury Lawyers, has predicted. Stephen Webber also predicted that specialist lawyers would leave the market.
Tags: Department of Health, fixed fees, medical negligence
Posted in General, News
Irwin Mitchell promises “absolute certainty” with fixed-fee commercial litigation scheme
Thursday, 1 October 2015National law firm Irwin Mitchell has promised its commercial litigation clients “absolute certainty” through a staged fixed-fee scheme launched today. Meanwhile HIgh Court judges have launched their two schemes to speed up trials at the Rolls Building.
Tags: commercial litigation, fixed fees, Irwin Mitchell
Posted in Costs, News
ABI demands crackdown on industrial deafness claims
Thursday, 18 June 2015The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is demanding a whiplash-style crackdown on industrial deafness claims. Among the measures it is calling for are fixed fees and the extension of MedCo.
Tags: Association of British Insurers, fixed fees, industrial deafness claims, MedCo
Posted in MoJ claims process, News
AJAG kicks off portal fee responses with plea to wait until small claims decision is made
Thursday, 3 January 2013Any changes to fixed-costs rates should only occur when the decision on the small claims limit has been made and experience gained of what the personal injury landscape looks like afterwards, the Access to Justice Action Group (AJAG) has told the government.
Tags: employers' liability, fixed fees, public liability, RTA portal, small claims
Posted in MoJ claims process, News
Government plan for mesothelioma claims process draws heavy fire from claimant lawyers
Wednesday, 19 December 2012Lawyers acting on the new system for dealing with mesothelioma claims will be paid on fixed-fee basis, the government announced yesterday. There will also be a dedicated pre-action protocol and an electronic portal on which the claims will be registered. But the plan to automate the process has been strongly criticised.
Tags: fixed fees, Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, mesothelioma
Posted in General, Jackson reforms, News
Back to the future
Wednesday, 5 December 2012In some ways it was Lord Justice Jackson’s intention to take us back to the 1990s. While he was not necessarily advocating a return to Rachel haircuts, Girl Power and MC Hammer trousers, he clearly felt nostalgia for the days when claimants had to pay success fees out of their damages. But it is more than just the end of recoverability that is taking up back to that era, according to a debate on life post-Jackson held in London last week by personal injury mediation provider Trust Mediation.
Tags: ATE insurance, damages-based agreements, DBA, fixed fees, Jackson report, part 36, QOCS, qualified one-way costs-shifting, RTA portal
Posted in Blog
Law Society calls for civil justice reforms delay as thousands sign e-petition
Wednesday, 5 December 2012Solicitors are trying to ratchet up the pressure on the government over the timetable for implementing the civil justice reforms, with the Law Society calling for a delay, and nearly 4,000 signing an e-petition.
Tags: fixed fees, fixed recoverable costs, Jackson report, RTA portal
Posted in Jackson reforms, News
Fenn report casts doubt over expansion of RTA process
Tuesday, 17 July 2012There needs to be an integrated system of fixed costs for all low-value, non-litigated road traffic accident (RTA) claims before the RTA process is extended to other types and values of claim – and even then it may only have a limited impact, a major report has claimed today.
Tags: fixed fees, fixed recoverable costs scheme, FRCS, RTA portal
Posted in MoJ claims process, News
Ombudsman: legal expenses insurance is a good thing – if only consumers understood it
Wednesday, 11 July 2012Legal expenses insurance is a good thing in the post-LASPO world but consumers have little understanding of it, the Legal Ombudsman warned today. He also highlighted unrealistic ‘no win, no fee’ promises and dubious fixed-fee services.
Tags: before-the-event, condition, fixed fees, legal expenses insurance, Legal Ombudsman, LeO
Posted in ATE/CFA, BTE, News
Government lays out cautious approach to extending fixed-fee system across personal injury
Monday, 9 July 2012The government is to take an unexpectedly cautious approach to extending the road traffic accident portal regime and has ditched the idea of mandatory pre-action directions, it announced today.
Tags: fixed fees, personal injury, RTA portal
Posted in Uncategorized