The message from Birmingham is clear – if impoverished local governments continue to rush through cuts without due regard for their public duty, they will simply wind up back at square one with an additional legal bill on their hands, says Sam Karim
It is music to my clients' ears that I have settled a couple of cases. The first was difficult on a number of levels because of its technicality and emotive circumstances. One of the claimants had been terminally ill for a long period of time and died the day before the scheduled mediation. The family bravely chose to go ahead in an attempt to get on with resolving what had already been a fairly drawn-out claim.
The solicitor acting for Penny Johnson, the woman who won £6m in damages at the High Court in the biggest ever award for plastic surgery injuries, has said that he would not have been able to take on the case if the Jackson reforms had been implemented.
