Mr. Ciarán Breen:

In the cases we settle there are two issues that arise. There is a breach of duty which we concede on a lot of occasions, as well as a breach of causation. I do not mean to be over technical, but the breach of duty may not, in fact, have caused the damage. That might be a point of real issue between medical experts in cases. Without an admission of liability is, in fact, only one component of cases in terms of there being a double breach. I am guessing that it would probably be somewhere in the order of between 30% and 50% of cases in which there would be no admission of liability.