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‘Access to Justice’: One Sound Bite Too Many for the Insurance Industry? - Carl Waring, Solicitor

03/01/12. Happy New Year to all our readers – that is unless you are a claimant lawyer or for that matter if you are likely to suffer a relatively minor personal injury this year. “Happy” is not a word that those in the claimant camp will likely be using to describe their state of being this year. No sooner than the government had confirmed that referral fees would definitely be banned as of 1st April 2013, AND that RTA Portal fees were to be slashed by 60% (more than expected) AND that it had decided to increase the portal limit to £25,000 AND that it was going to extend the portal to cover EL and PL cases.... pause for breath for a moment, as that is one hell of a lot of reform to take in all in one go..... ok, on we go....than Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling announced on the 11th December 2012, that a four month consultation was to be launched that very morning (why hang about?) outlining...

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