With the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) in 1999, the civil justice system was to be streamlined, putting the claimant at the centre of the system and ensuring litigation was made simpler, quicker and cheaper. Sadly, this has not proved to be the case.
Instead, in the five years since the introduction of the CPR and the payment of success fees and insurance premiums under conditional fee agreements and collective conditional fee agreements, there has been a mounting battle between claimants’ advisers, ‘claims farmers’ and insurers over the ever-increasing cost of litigation.
