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Article: Letter: Legal costs will stay high.(Letters)
- Article from:
- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2007
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Byline: Fiona Kemp
RE. YOUR recent article on legal costs in medical negligence claims (Daily Post July 16). As a partner in the clinical negligence department of a leading claimant firm, I was interested to read your recent article quoting Mr Bradshaw as to the extent of legal costs claimed in medical negligence cases against local trusts.
I believe his remarks are somewhat disingenuous, and in particular, take exception to his comments that claimants' solicitors frequently fail to accept offers of mediation made by defendants.
As a firm, we have been involved in hundreds of clinical negligence claims and it is standard practice to offer ...