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Fixed Fees in Clinical Negligence Cases - Nina Ali, Jones & Allen

17/12/15. With the consultation on fixed fees in clinical negligence cases now delayed until early 2016, Nina Ali, partner at Hodge Jones & Allen, urges the Government to reconsider.

This summer the Department of Health announced proposals to fix costs in clinical negligence cases worth below £250,000 and, in doing so, raised grave concerns that many victims of medical negligence could be left without any means of obtaining compensation for their injuries.

A consultation into the proposals has been delayed and it is now not expected until early 2016. The Department of Health is reported to have engaged legal economics expert Professor Paul Fenn, the academic who carried out research in relation to the introduction of fixed costs in low-value road traffic accident claims, to consider the fixed-costs structure that should be used.

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