A fresh vision

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The entire civil and administrative justice system needs to be integrated and reformed, according to a paper published by the Nuffield Foundation this morning. All eight frontline regulators and their oversight regulator should be replaced with a single independent regulator for legal professionals, it adds.

Access to civil justice should be through a “single, uncomplicated portal, readily identifiable to users”, says the paper, called Resolving Disputes: a Framework for Holistic Reform. Legal claims against the NHS for medical negligence should be replaced by a no-blame compensation scheme, in the author’s view.

How realistic are these proposals? What would they cost? What chance is there that they’ll be put into effect? Those were among the questions I put to Dr Christopher Hodges OBE, emeritus professor of justice systems at the University of Oxford, when I interviewed him about his proposals for this week’s episode of A Lawyer Talks.

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