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The APIL Business Conference 2012, Looking to The Future - Julie Carlisle, Henmans LLP

08/11/12. With only 6 months to go until April 2013, the APIL Business Conference in October 2012 was a chance to reassess, regroup and reassure with a strong note of optimism sounding amongst the cacophony of general gloom surrounding the industry. As well as practical advice on how to run our businesses post Jackson, we heard APIL President Karl Tonks pointing out that the attitude of the current government to reform at any cost is very much indicative of their attitude to the rights of injured people generally. In fact, having warned us briefly of the intention to amend the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill to do away with breach of statutory duty, Lo! it came to pass with the announcement, just two days later, that a clause overturning the automatic right to compensation was slipped in just as...

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