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Postbox: European model unworkable in UK

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Why is [DAS chief executive] Paul Asplin sounding the death knell for the UK legal expenses model (www.postonline.co.uk/1567531), when alternative UK business models are already demonstrating that add-on legal expenses can deliver both a responsive service and profit? Perhaps it is time for him and others to look at the issues closer to home.

To state that the UK model could be replaced by a continental model is disingenuous. The differences between the UK and continental legal systems are such that a model along continental lines would be

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