Referral fee ban lacks definition and will "damage access to justice"

John Spencer

The LASPO Bill represents “a litany of missed opportunities for the personal injury system” according to John Spencer, director of Spencers Solicitors.

He said this was the best way of looking at the bill (which gained royal assent this month) and that it would “at worst … cast a shroud of ambiguity that will profoundly damage access to justice”.

Mr Spencer added that less attention should have been paid to the recommendations of the insurance lobby, and said the better approach would have been to “do more to protect injured people and the public at large by really tackling the myriad perverse commercial incentives which infest the system”.

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Applied updates on commercial push

Applied Systems has confirmed Arch Insurance is about to enter the pilot phase of onboarding and will be live on the Applied Epic broker management system in April, with Iprism and Ark to follow and more promised in 2024.

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