In May, Tony Blair delivered a powerful speech which was to set the scene for new legislation to regulate compensation claims.
Speaking at the Institute for Public Policy Research, he pulled no punches in saying that the so-called compensation culture should now be replaced with a “common sense culture”. As he remarked on the effects of the present system: “This [compensation culture] is putting pressure on policy-making, not just in government but in regulatory bodies, in local government, public services, in Europe and across parts of the private sector; pressure to act to eliminate risk in a way that is out of all proportion to the potential damage.”
