Sentences with phrase «incentive for claimants»

Once future act claims are registered, there appears to be little incentive for the claimants to seek to progress their claim — indeed there is considerable risk that the claim will not be successful and the claimants will lose the procedural rights conferred by registration of the claim.

The DWP says this is necessary in order to ensure there is a financial incentive for claimants to still trace the relevant insurer where possible, so that claims will only be brought against the fund once all other avenues have been exhausted.

This means that awards in the UK are much lower and therefore quite simply there is less to play for and less financial incentive for claimants, and more importantly their lawyers and costs funders.

It adds that there is no financial incentive for claimants to ensure costs are reasonable, and referral fees increase costs without adding value.

It is particularly important that the experience of the self - employed claimant is tested sufficiently robustly to find out whether universal credit can indeed act as a work incentive for claimants choosing that route.

The lack of any financial incentive for claimants in ensuring costs in bringing a claim are reasonable.

Not exact matches

Their ongoing welfare series includes reports on rights and responsibilities in the welfare system, personalising employment support, improving conditionality, improving incentives for Jobcentre Plus and how to treat in - work claimants subject to conditionality under universal credit.

By building a more detailed profile of claimants» underlying problems, using information available to other government departments, segmentation tools developed in the private sector and testing new incentives and flexibilities for Jobcentre Plus staff, we can begin to develop a more effective approach.

Universal Credit attracted widespread support because it was originally designed to simplify the benefit system and improve work incentives, with a new cadre of frontline jobcentre work coaches assisting more claimants to prepare for and seek work.

The incentive for defendants to accept claimant's reasonable CPR Pt 36 offers is too weak.

There was previously some debate in the case law relating to the proposition that an offer, particularly a Part 36 claimant's offer, must contain some element of concession or incentive so as to encourage settlement in order for the same to qualify as a Part 36 offer.

As recent cases such as Watkinson (ET 1702168 / 2008 and 1702079 / 2009) have demonstrated, there is ample incentive for unfair dismissal claimants to allege that the reason for dismissal was, for example, the fact that protected disclosures had been made, because the statutory cap on compensation does not apply in such cases.

Lawyers really are the best advocates for their claimant clients especially when they are operating in a fair, sensible, responsible system — a system that contains no incentives to drag matters out and run up costs.

Lawyers really are the best advocates for their claimant clients especially when they are able to operate in a fair, sensible, responsible system — a system that contains no incentives to drag matters out and run up costs.

There is little incentive for counsel to take the time for such interviews and, when they do, confidentiality concerns mean that questions about specific claimants can not be answered.

For one, litigation finance companies, as purchasers of the securities, could rely on the antifraud provisions to redress misrepresentations made by claimants seeking financing, and the potential for this liability should help combat claimants» incentive to exaggerate the merits of their claiFor one, litigation finance companies, as purchasers of the securities, could rely on the antifraud provisions to redress misrepresentations made by claimants seeking financing, and the potential for this liability should help combat claimants» incentive to exaggerate the merits of their claifor this liability should help combat claimants» incentive to exaggerate the merits of their claims.

Although the reason for this holding makes good and under - appreciated sense from a retributivist perspective — a person ought not be punished for conduct that has not been clearly proven to be the defendant's culpable misconduct, es - pecially if the defendant has various defenses that could be raised as against particular claimants — the new holding poses a substantial risk of reducing incentives to plaintiffs and their counsel because they can not pursue a jackpot of punitive damages based on «total harm.»