25 July 2018
The Ministry of Justice has dropped plans to introduce fixed recoverable costs for holiday personal injury claims. In April, it announced civil procedure rules would be changed, after the travel industry campaigned for action to tackle a surge in these types of claims. Claimant lawyers countered that greater costs were involved where claims are made abroad. However, the Ministry confirmed last week that fixed costs will be restricted to package travel gastric illness claims for the moment. It has said it could yet take further action if there is a surge in other holiday claims.
