Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 33
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Require Government to set out safeguards ensuring fixed recoverable costs do not restrict access to justice.
Recommendation
We are concerned that the Government’s proposal to introduce Fixed Recoverable Costs in clinical negligence cases below £25,000 may compromise access to justice for the poorest claimants. The Government is right to try and rein in excessive legal costs, but until the administrative scheme we are recommending is introduced in full it must ensure that all injured patients retain access to adequate legal representation. In response to this report the Government should set out the safeguards it will introduce to ensure that fixed recoverable costs do not restrict access to legal representation for the poorest and most vulnerable injured patients.
Paragraph Reference:
197