CSC responds to Civil Litigation Costs Review

The Claims Standard Council (CSC) has submitted a response to the preliminary report by Lord Justice Jackson, the Civil Litigation Costs Review. In its submission, the CSC said “Solicitors can obtain personal injury claims only if their service is marketed, directly, by a marketing agency acting on their behalf or by a claims management company. Referral fees are a marketing cost in the same way as direct advertising or the costs of employing business development managers. Abolishing referral fees would have no effect on marketing costs; it would merely change their composition. In practice referral fees, in a disguised form, would continue to be paid – as they were before they were formally permitted.”