Lord Justice Jackson’s final report certainly lived up to expectations that it would be controversial.
Lord Justice Jackson’s final report certainly lived up to expectations that it would be controversial. The range and scale of his report are breathtakingly ambitious and bold. We were told that there would be no sacred cows and so it seems!
Although the final report covers all areas of civil litigation costs, it is the field of personal injury practice that is most radically affected. Much existing practice and assumptions are set to change, if these recommendations are implemented.
As with any major revolution in the status quo, there are winners and losers: for some the report harbingers catastrophic change. In a sector largely polarised between individual claimants, their representatives and various legal service suppliers, on the one hand, and insurers and self insured corporations whose lot it is to pay for these claims – it is the latter group, and in particular the liability insurance industry, that appear to have most to gain. This is because the proposed
