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31 May 2012 / Dominic Regan
Issue: 7516 / Categories: Opinion , Costs , Jackson
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Pointless portals

Dominic Regan takes the MoJ to task over plans for an employer’s liability portal

Short of organising a barn-dance in a minefield, it is difficult to envisage how the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) could cause more harm and upset so many practitioners. Senior judges despair of the shambles surrounding Jackson implementation. The MoJ has also achieved the nigh-impossible task of getting claimants and defendants to agree on something: it is that the idea of an employer’s liability portal for April 2013 is ludicrous.

RTA portal

We have one portal at present. It applies to road traffic claims worth up to £10,000 and came into being, after years of work, in April 2010. Let us not forget that even then there was a last-minute postponement to try and get it right and so it arrived at the end of that month. It is seen as a success in that a vast number of claims have been processed and resolved without litigation. Nevertheless, more than

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