According to the Law Society Gazette the shadow justice minister Andy Slaughter has suggested that his party would ‘unwind’ some of the controversial Jackson Reforms if his party return to power in 2015. Slaughter suggested this would be done ‘through a more thorough consultation process that would take account of the opinions of members of the legal profession’, and stated that‘It’s a lesson we need to learn – we need to listen to the profession as well as the Daily Mail. I would not want a Labour government to be prisoner to vested interests [but] we have gone too far the other way in ignoring experts in this area simply because politicians think they are feathering their own nests.’ It is music to the ears (or eyes in this case) to read that there is at least one politician out there who believes that experts should be consulted before major reforms are made. However, Slaughter did also state that it would be wrong to bring in new reforms when the effects of existing reforms have yet to be assessed. There is a lot that can change in two years and it is fair to say that whatever happens in the next general election, the majority of the Jackson reforms are almost certainly here to stay.
I am a Practice Manager of a long established firm of Legal Costs Consultants in Cheshire.
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