By John Hyde2021-05-31T00:01:00+01:00
Official Injury Claim goes live today, with personal injury lawyers and insurers dealing with potentially the biggest change to the secton in almost a decade.
The portal for RTA claims up to £5,000, designed for unrepresented claimants, has been delayed 13 months but is finally ready to go. We asked leading industry figures whether it is ready and what the next few weeks and months have in store.
Brett Dixon, vice president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers:
As it stands the CPRC has signed off the rules and the spotlight is now on
MIB and the MoJ to get the build completed and properly tested. One of our greatest concerns is the lack of time for robust user testing.
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By John Hyde2021-02-10T14:09:00+00:00
The whiplash reforms set for May this year have taken a significant step forward after new rules were given the green light.
Minutes of an extraordinary meeting of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee from 22 January, published this week, confirm that members recommended that Sir Geoffrey Vos approves the draft pre-action protocol. This is the framework for how the RTA portal will work in practice when it is brought in for litigants in person handling claims worth up to £5,000.
The minutes state that the matter was due to return to the committee last week, raising the prospect that the Ministry of Justice will have the rules approved and in place ahead of its