The Accident Management Association has expressed opposition to many of the proposals in Sir Rupert Jackson’s final report “Review of civil litigation costs” published yesterday.

Tony Baker, Director General of the AMA, commented: “The positive proposals in the report are dwarfed because of the overwhelming detrimental consumer aspects.  The abolition of recovery of success fees and ATE premiums would reduce access to justice. The legalisation of contingency will be misused and also reduce access to justice. A ban on referral fees is unwarranted and impractical.”   He added: “It would be amazing if any government sought parliamentary time to carry forward these proposals.”