Jennifer James fails to find justice at the check-out queue
The Insider has watched the compensation culture burgeon over the years since I was admitted to practise law in 1992. The introduction of conditional fee agreements saw massive increases in slip and trip and whiplash injury claims, the latter allegedly pushing insurance premiums for all drivers up by some £90 each per annum.
You would, therefore, think that it would be a piece of cake to sue a large corporation in tort, but I can tell you from personal experience that this is not necessarily correct.
A wake-up call
A few months ago, I was in my local (unidentifiable from anything in this article) superstore, packing my trolley, when I felt and heard a forceful whack across my right gluteus maximus; I had been smacked, hard, on the backside. My initial reaction was to look round—I thought perhaps it was someone I knew although I had not seen anyone I knew in there and would not have been impressed by such a greeting anyway.
It never occurred to me that what I would actually
