Admissions of liability should be binding

Responding to the government’s consultation exercise on pre-action admissions, Thompsons Solicitors has called for admissions of liability made by defendants in personal injury cases to be binding. The law firm said: “Defendants are currently making applications to court to withdraw admissions and these are being granted. This makes a mockery of the intention of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) to speed up cases and not bog the courts down dealing with unnecessary and unjustifiable applications.”