The proposed legislation that introduces major changes to the personal injury market has been shelved as the government prepares for the June 08 general election.
The Prisons and Courts Bill, which contains the planned reforms on whiplash claims compensation, has been scrapped following a unanimous vote by MPs on Thursday.
“The Bills that were introduced to this House quite late in the current parliamentary session and which received carry-over motions so that they could be debated in what would have been the third session of this Parliament, including the Prisons and Courts Bill, will fall,” Lidington said.
The government reforms included plans to scrap the right to compensation or at the very least, put a cap on the amount people can claim for minor whiplash injuries.
