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Title	Date
The Times - Paul Evans viewpoint ‘We all pay price of out of control compensation culture’	12 Dec 2011
The Times - No-win, no-fee is disgraceful and something must be done	17 Nov 2011
Daily Mail - NHS blunders kill 8,000 in 13 years	10 Nov 2011
Daily Mail - £5,000 payout for falling out of bed	27 Oct 2011
Cambridge News - Compensation culture blamed for council pay-outs of £100k	14 Oct 2011
London Evening Standard - Greedy lawyers blamed as ‘cash for crash’ scams boom	13 Oct 2011
The Times - Lawyers face fee cut in campaign to curb insurance costs rise	13 Oct 2011
Law Gazette online - Fixed fees to be 'renegotiated’ after referral ban	3 Oct 2011
Daily Telegraph - Attorney General: cuts to legal aid will force people to represent themselves in court	29 Sep 2011
NI regional newspapers - Sunbeds fixed penalty is not tough enough	28 Sep 2011
The Guardian - Dowlers in plea to Cameron to protect legal aid	26 Sep 2011
The Sun - The Brazilian that could cause cancer	15 Sep 2011
The Times - Victory for drivers in insurance scandal	15 Sep 2011
Daily Mail - Victory for drivers as ‘cash for crash’ racket is outlawed	14 Sep 2011
Various local and national press - in respone to compensation culture press coverage	7 Sep 2011
Tyrone Courier & Dungannon News - £250,000 for pupils injured in schools	7 Sep 2011
The Times - High street stands in path of ambulance chasers	5 Sep 2011
Belfast Telegraph - The £70,000 payout to young boy who caught his thumb in a door	25 Aug 2011
Bristol Evening Post - 'Soft work' bias	25 Aug 2011
Law Society Gazette - Claimants to pay half of RTA portal costs	19 Aug 2011
East Anglian Daily Times - School injuries costing £90,000	15 Aug 2011
Daily Telegraph - Health and safety in schools	11 Aug 2011
Bolton News - Word on the Street: council claims	21 Jul 2011
Daily Mirror - Danger for workers	7 Jul 2011
The Times - Insurance ‘racket’ is exposed by Jack Straw	29 Jun 2011
Kidderminster Shuttle - Straw slams injury claims ‘racket’	29 Jun 2011
Daily Express - Car insurance to rise by 30 per cent	21 Jun 2011
The Sunday Times - No-win, no-fee and no winners	20 Jun 2011
Civil costs reform - regional newspapers	15 Jun 2011
Daily Telegraph - MP’s anger at £11,000 payout for scalded pupil	9 Jun 2011
Daily Express - Compensation culture in class	31 May 2011
Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Claims culture is a real pain	23 May 2011
Daily Mirror - Spilt pud in crazy school compo claims	19 May 2011
North Wales Daily Post - Kids now hit by health 'n' safety	20 Apr 2011
Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph - Car insurance soaring by £1,000 a year	14 Apr 2011
Teeside Evening Gazette - Clarke set to curb compensation rush	6 Apr 2011
Regional press - law on damages is out of date	21 Mar 2011
East Anglian Daily Times - re: Driven to distraction	14 Mar 2011
The Guardian - proposed HSE safety check cuts	10 Mar 2011
Dundee Evening Telegraph - Claims from injured staff cost council over £285,000	1 Mar 2011
The Sentinel - – This nauseating compensation culture should shame all of us	22 Feb 2011
Daily Mail - Why feeling tired all the time could mean there's a killer in your house	15 Feb 2011
Oxford Mail - Snow laughing matter	11 Feb 2011
Daily Express - ‘Damages culture is out of control thanks to legal aid’	7 Feb 2011
Daily Telegraph - Re: Car insurance up by 34pc to pay whiplash cheats	24 Jan 2011
National press - Landmark for privacy laws as ‘Mirror’ wins Campbell case	19 Jan 2011
Sunday Express - One teacher a month dying from asbestos	17 Jan 2011
Law Society Gazette - FOIL president: cut claimant lawyer fees	4 Jan 2011
Daily Mirror - Cam 'compo sham'	7 Jan 2011
Daily Express - Outrage as compo bill hits £27m	4 Jan 2011