President of the association John McQuater said:

‘In all my years of practice, I can rarely remember waiting so long for so little’.

The consultation proposals include extending the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 to make children under the age of 18 and co-habitees who have lived together for at least two years eligible for bereavement damages.

Mr McQuater said, however, that the proposals had not gone far enough – explaining that the government had not understood that the current level of beavement damages payable was ‘seen as an insult by many people’.

Mr McQuater added:

‘The concept that the defendant should pay for the care provided to injured people by public bodies – which was so welcome in the consultation – has been shelved, despite the fact that so many respondents favoured this approach.’

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