Healthcare & Law Digest

摘要

High Court litigation as it has been organizednsince Access to Justice1 costs morenthan society is willing to pay to dispose ofnclinical negligence claims. The cost of thisnclinical disputes resolution service, ornConcorde as we may call it, has grown likenits aeronautical namesake: there has onlynever been one frequent flier and that wasnHMG. The Legal Services Commission,nin its latest public consultation paper,2 hasnserved notice that it is broadly speakingnunlikely to pick up the bill as hitherto.nThe Department of Health in MakingnAmends3 has made it clear that somethingnhas to change. In this paper I will describenthe problem and propose two simple measuresnthat may do something to save thensituation for other passengers, even if ournregular trade goes by sea.