27 February 2015
Personal injury lawyer, Patrick Allen, senior partner at Hodge, Jones & Allen LLP, detects four major changes since the Jackson and legal aid reforms, in an article in this week’s NLJ. They are: the inability of many firms to make a profit in the new climate, leading to closures and takeovers, therefore less choice for clients and many good firms forced out of business; clients suffering substantial deductions from damages; the possibility that firms will abandon the civil justice system altogether; and a substantial justice gap.
