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Government U-turn on Personal Injury Reforms

18th October 2016 by Harold Stock & Co

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You may have heard that over the past year the government proposed to make further reforms to personal injury claims. One of these reforms was to effectively remove the right for people to claim for low value whiplash claims in an attempt to reduce the number of fraudulent claims being made for low value injuries and enable insurance companies to pass on savings made from not having to pay out on these low value and potentially fraudulent cases.

In a dramatic U-turn, the government has set aside its further plan to make reforms. Why? It has become apparent that previous reforms which slashed legal costs payable for all types of personal injury claims under £25,000, involved huge savings for insurance companies who do not appear to have passed on the savings to customers by reducing premiums. Figures obtained from the Association of British Insurers show that insurance claims in 2015 totaled £5.8 billion compared to £8.3 billion in 2010. Have those savings been used to reduce insurance premiums? It would appear not as the average premium has risen by over 10% Shocking news, we know!

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and The Law Society have continued to fight, believing there should be access to justice for all and they also continue to call to the government for a ban on cold calling and spam texting in relation to personal injury claims. We would welcome this ban. As Solicitors, we have rules which prevent us from cold calling and yet, as a profession we are the ones who bear the brunt of the criticism for the unscrupulous methods employed by other companies. 

Filed Under: Blog, Personal Injury Tagged With: personal injury, personal injury claims, personal injury compensation, whiplash

Fundamental change and re-investment in infrastructure is the key to delivering an adequate justice system says chair-elect of the Bar Council

14th October 2016 by Harold Stock & Co

Are online courts and digitisation the key to delivering an adequate and fit-for-purpose justice system? Well, not according to the chair-elect of the Bar Council, Andrew Langdon QC. Writing in a blog post at the end of the political conference season, Langdon said modernising courts and creating more digital services is only half the battle in delivering an adequate justice system; what’s needed, he argued, is fundamental change.

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MoJ statistics show more than a third of family law cases have no legal representation at all.

7th October 2016 by Harold Stock & Co

New statistics released by the Ministry of Justice show that in more than a third of cases appearing before the family court neither party is legally represented. The MoJ’s quarterly statistics for the period April to June, 2016, show that neither the applicant nor respondent were represented in 34 per cent of cases.

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Lord Justice Jackson urges caution on civil justice system and court funding reforms

30th September 2016 by Harold Stock & Co

Lord Justice Jackson has issued a plea for the government to stop relying on litigants to meet the costs of the justice system. He has raised concerns and asked the government to think long and hard before it decides whether civil court fees should continue to rise at a rate far in excess of inflation.

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New MoJ consultation document, ‘Transforming our Justice System’ paves the way for more extensive fixed costs regime

23rd September 2016 by Harold Stock & Co

The Ministry of Justice is preparing to extend fixed recoverable costs for a wide range of civil cases. The proposals were outlined in the Transforming our Justice System consultation paper, published by Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss, on September 15th.

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Welsh Assembly set to levy the first Welsh property tax in 800 years

16th September 2016 by Harold Stock & Co

Legislation was proposed yesterday by the Welsh authorities to levy the first tax in Wales for over 800 years. If approved, the new land transaction tax, which will be payable on the purchase or lease of land or a building in Wales over a certain price, will replace stamp duty land tax from April, 2018.

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