Personal Injury Lawyers Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Personal Injury Lawyers

Lord Strathclyde Excerpts
Thursday 7th July 2011

(12 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Strathclyde Portrait Lord Strathclyde
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I really do not think that the Opposition should have two goes; it is the turn of my noble friend.

Lord Phillips of Sudbury Portrait Lord Phillips of Sudbury
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Will my noble friend please take even more account of the fee-farming industry that has grown up in this country, which encourages indiscriminate and, I have to say, false claims because neither the fee-farming company nor the solicitor who purchases the case from the fee farmer ever sees the client? Without that, there is no constraint on dishonesty.