Recommendation 1

Given that some of the witnesses the Committee would have intended to call to give oral evidence are parties to the case of Hassam v Rabot to be heard by the Supreme Court in early 2024, and the centrality of the treatment of mixed injury claims in assessing the overall implementation of the whiplash reform programme, the Committee has decided to pause its inquiry until the Supreme Court has ruled on the case. In the interim, we nevertheless wish to raise some concerns in relation to the operation of the OIC service to date, which were highlighted in the written evidence we received, and which we have set out in the remainder of this Report. We have also published the written evidence to the inquiry. We note that these are Parliamentary Proceedings, and that just as we are pausing our inquiry in respect to the Supreme Court, parties to the case should bear in mind that Article IX of the Bill of Rights 1689 applies to the Committee’s proceedings and so not make reference to this evidence in the ongoing case. (Paragraph 7) Use of the O C portal by litigants in person