The solicitor acting for Penny Johnson, the woman who won £6m in damages at the High Court in the biggest ever award for plastic surgery injuries, has said that he would not have been able to take on the case if the Jackson reforms had been implemented.
The message from Birmingham is clear – if impoverished local governments continue to rush through cuts without due regard for their public duty, they will simply wind up back at square one with an additional legal bill on their hands, says Sam Karim
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