Ms Dorothea Dowling:

In the debates on the Courts Bill, which introduced the jurisdictional increases from 3 February, it was stated that the various independent inquiries conducted subsequent to the MIAB found that in personal injury claims, unlike commercial cases, the costs were proportionate to the award, regardless of complexity, court jurisdiction and of the effort put into the case. It was X% regardless. I have in mind three of those inquiries: the Competition Authority; the Haran report on legal costs and one for the Miller report on the implementation of legal costs