Justice Minister Helen Grant MP announced this week that the Government is to consult on reforming claims for mesothelioma.
In a written ministerial statement to MPs, Ms Grant said that the consultation will take place in spring 2013, and will focus on ‘introducing fixed legal fees for mesothelioma claims; a dedicated pre-action protocol for those claims and an electronic portal on which the claims will be registered’.
Ms Grant also announced that the consultation will include the review of the potential effects of the reforms of conditional fee agreements on mesothelioma claims, which was included in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. The Government has said it hopes to publish the outcome of the review in autumn 2013.
