Blog: Six months is a long time in politics

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December 2019 was the first anniversary of Royal Assent to the Civil Liability Act 2018 and mid-January 2020 marked six months on from David Gauke’s last decisions as Lord Chancellor to set a new personal injury discount rate of minus 0.25% for England and Wales under powers in part 2 of the act writes Alistair Kinley, director of policy and government affairs at BLM.

Oddly, perhaps, the earlier part one of the Civil Liability Act has yet to come to life and a raft of regulations is still required before the whiplash reforms it contains will bite. Those reforms

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