I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I take on board his point that the appropriate test for a small claims regime is complexity or otherwise, but will he recognise that there is a risk that perceived complexity might make claimants vulnerable to the operations of claims management companies, which do not have the high standards and good regulation of personal injury lawyers, as he rightly recognises? What safeguards do the Government intend to put in place beyond this Bill and more generally to make sure that we do not have a displacement effect from well-regulated personal injuries lawyers to unregulated, unscrupulous claims managers of the kind to which my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon South (Chris Philp) and others referred. What more can we do to safeguard against that unintended consequence?
Civil Liability Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Robert Neill
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 23 October 2018.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Legislative Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Civil Liability Bill [Lords].
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