A large contingent of practices depend wholly or mainly upon personal injury litigation and many people have asked me recently where Jackson will lead them
Dominic Regan takes soundings on the future of PI litigation
A large contingent of practices depend wholly or mainly upon personal injury litigation and many people have asked me recently where Jackson will lead them. What follows is an honest appraisal of the landscape, having spoken to a number of experts and tapped them for their wisdom.
One suggestion which I am prepared to say will never be implemented is the implementation of a no fault liability scheme. The Australian advocate, Tass Angelopoulos, tells me that the antipodean experiment was a mess. Such a scheme would provoke more claims at what I believe can only be greater overall cost particularly to the state which is a massive employer.
Green light?
Road traffic litigation is prolific. We now have in place two pre-litigation road traffic schemes both of which attach predictable costs to claims that settle. Nicholas Bevan, the solicitor who now runs an independent consultancy advising law firms on
