Abstract
The government has unveiled plans to cap legal fees charged by lawyers in clinical negligence claims, in an effort to save the NHS as much as £80m a year. In 2013-14 claimants’ lawyers charged the NHS Litigation Authority £259m in legal fees for clinical negligence claims. Currently, no limit exists on the legal fees that can be charged. Ben Gummer, health minister, said, “Unscrupulously, some lawyers have used patient claims to load grossly excessive costs onto the NHS and charge far more than the patient receives in compensation.” In one case a lawyer …
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