Personal Injury Law Reform 2020

Personal injury solicitors in UK are on great heights. Personal injury reforms were prepared to impose in April 2020. Due to COVID-19, UK government decided in February 2020 to delay the enforcement of personal injury reforms to first day of August 2020. Further notice came by from Ministerial statement in April 2020 that shows that UK government has decided to impose those reforms from April 2021. The whiplash tariffs and personal injury reforms were part of the Civil Liability Act 2018. Personal injury law reforms 2020 is meant to explain the all changes that are intended in 2018. Law Circles in UK about Personal Injury There are various opinions in law circles in UK about personal injury reforms. These were started in July 2019 to reform the minor claims. It is said that these reforms are part of regulations and do not have full back from parliament. That stance shows that these reforms are subject to severe criticism and can be discarded off if opposition seats come up against to check these reforms. The delay in enforcement of these reforms gives favor to the critic of these reforms to point out their objections to government. Few of the salient features of these reforms are mentioned below: Small claim limit increased In these reforms, small claim limit is increase from one thousand pounds to five thousand pounds. In this way, more claims will be categorized as small claims. That means more people will have to bear cost of attorney or more people will go direct by themselves for claims. That shows difficulty for people to claim success because most of the people do not know lot more about legal affairs that come in their contact if they come for claims. In this way, people will not come for claims in long run for small claims. Whiplash Injuries With these reforms, there will no impact of cause of injury upon the amount of compensation. That means intent of injury will not affect the case. Few law experts suggest that there should be ban on offerings from insurers before the medical examination of victim. Other suggestions for these reforms under the heading of whiplash injuries are to increase the amount of compensation solely prerogative of judges and government should tackle frauds of injuries instead of affecting rights of victims. One law expert says that government should clarify steps to solve the injury case instead of discouraging victims. Personal injury discount rate  It is said that Lord chancellor have decided the personal injury discount rate after getting data from actuarial sciences department. There are no suggestions from legal experts on this decision. Legal experts claim that these changes should be revised. When under revision, there should be legal experts there to point out other factors that affect personal injury and discount rate. Some legal opinions finds this appropriate that there should be independent panel, which makes discount rate problem clear and enforce without involvement of lord chancellor.