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PI Industry update: referral fees, small claims limits, general damages and discount rates - Tim Kevan

16/08/12. The personal injury industry is in a state of extreme flux and this article highlights just a few of the recent changes of which everyone should be aware.  For anyone who’s been living on the planet Mars, then they may not have heard that the payment of referral fees for cases is going to be banned from next April. This will be regulated for solicitors by the SRA and you might think that since it’s only a few months away there would be very clear guidelines as to what’s what and how to comply etc. Not so, sadly and solicitors are still waiting to see exactly what the SRA will decide. Indeed, at this stage they are...

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