The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (Apil) is warning that legislation going through Parliament to change no win no fee will fail to address the problems in the personal injury system.
Instead, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill could be a charter for the insurance industry to print money at the expense of injured individuals, the group claims.
Concerns have also been voiced by the Motor Accident Solicitors Society (MASS) whose chair, Donna Scully, says: “The Government has completely missed the target here.
She adds: Worse still, it has hit the wrong targets namely the seriously injured, those injured at work or in a public place and, indeed, all genuine claimants.”
Apil and MASS are therefore calling for personal injury clauses to be scrapped from the Bill in favour of:
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