Recently the rehabilitation code, which encourages greater collaboration
between claimant lawyers and insurers to address injured people's needs, and provide them with the right treatment as quickly as possible was updated and re-issued.
Not exact matches
As a preliminary conclusion and before I report further on these and other issues which are brought to my attention, it is clear to me that all the elements of the «Ick Factor» are essentially contingent to the funder used and the relationship established
between funder,
claimant and
lawyer.
Here are just two examples: in 2013, new legislation placed more potential liability on
claimants, deterring false claims; while in 2015 further laws were brought in to ensure absolute independency
between lawyers, and the doctors making judgements on injury.
The PD seeks to place some degree of regulation on funding arrangements in the jurisdiction without fettering the determination of the claim or the arrangement in place
between claimant, funder and
lawyer.
We look forward to featuring a broad spectrum of views from various international
lawyers and scholars on this landmark arbitral award, as we track contemporaneous developments in the Asia - Pacific region, and invite further discussion especially on next steps ahead for the actual disputes
between the
claimants on maritime boundary delimitation.
One respondent spoke approvingly about negotiations over pastoral arrangements in northern Queensland, where the parties excluded
lawyers from meetings and agreed to spend a substantial portion of each meeting building relationships
between pastoralists and native title
claimants.