Post-implementation review will consider increasing the small claims track limit to £5,000.
National Audit Office report points out that lawyers’ fees are 3.7 times higher than damages awarded to claimants in cases worth under £25,000.
Defendants should not be given ‘free tilt’ at raising fundamental dishonesty accusations, judge rules.
The government wants to protect victims of clinical negligence, but it may be pricing them out of making a claim.