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Why I'm Not in Sympathy With the Whiplash Debate - Bill Braithwaite QC, Head of Exchange Chambers

07/08/13.The headline - “Claimant campaigners today hailed the report as a ‘welcome shift to transparency and truth’ in the whiplash debate” made me think. I'm a claimant only advocate, and I spend my life seeing claimants who have suffered catastrophic injury. I believe passionately in their rights, and in achieving justice for them. But...

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