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Drivers are at the coal face of road safety. What they do determines whether people live or die because most road carnage is caused by drivers failing to follow the most important and basic safety laws. Read more >
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Bakers Personal Injury Solicitors is delighted to be supporting BRAKE, the national road safety charity, to raise awareness about protecting vulnerable road users. Read more >
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The Government has admitted a mistake over the impact proposed cuts to the legal aid budget would have on the justice system. Read more >
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The Access to Justice Action Group have condemned the Coalition Government’s Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. Read more >
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Motor insurers stand to pocket billions in extra income a year if a recommendation to retain referral fees is acted on, a leading personal injury lawyer has claimed. The former Motor Accident Solicitors Society chairman and director at CS2 Lawyers, said the Legal Services Board report on referral fees published a fortnight ago spells good news for direct motor players that receive large sums for selling cases to law firms. His claim runs counter to the stance of the industry’s trade body, the Association of British Insurers, which has campaigned for their removal. Read more >
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Following the close of the consultation on February 14th, the ClaSC was totally bewildered at Tuesday’s announcement bearing in mind the Ministry of Justice had received in excess of 600 responses to the Green Paper, plus statistical evidence. Read more >
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Giving evidence to the Health Select Committee recently, Law Society Chief Executive Desmond Hudson said the Government’s proposals to change the system of litigation funding in England and Wales would cause “rejoicing in the Boardrooms of insurance companies”. Read more >
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APIL's new president, David Bott addressed delegates at the association's 21st annual conference at the Celtic Manor Resort last week, and said that injured people face an "ever tightening screw". Read more >
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Personal Injury Solicitors are sometimes unfairly criticised for being ambulance chasers only interested in their own welfare and profit. The reality is that Solicitors specialising in personal injury law often work at their own financial risk, taking on liability insurers with no guarantee of payment should they fail. Bakers Personal Injury Solicitors specialises in complicated compensation claims and always operates in the best interests of its clients. Defendant insurers, on the other hand, are businesses with a duty to their shareholders and will pay an innocent injured victim as little as they can get away with. Read more >
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When something stares you in the face and you cannot believe what you are experiencing, it is time to step back and think. This is a true story, one which I still cannot believe, but the same thing must go on all the time across the insurance industry. It’s a tale of a hidden conflict of interest and shows why the insurance industry just cannot be trusted. Read more >
