Trying to find an ideal balance
Helen Withers considers the implications for the legal costs insurance industry on the issue of freedom of choice of solicitors.
To paraphrase The Insurance Companies (Legal Expenses Insurance)Regulations 1990 (section 6) - it states that an insured has the freedom
to choose their own solicitor under an insurance contract
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