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The Jackson reforms have overcome their last hurdle to being presented as part of the Justice Bill later this month, Legal Futures can reveal. An amended impact assessment has been approved by the Cabinet Office’s regulatory policy committee after it gave the original version a “red card”.

The seemingly unanimous support among the judiciary for the Jackson reforms was shattered yesterday after it emerged that three costs judges oppose them. Masters Campbell, Haworth and Leonard put forward their own, less radical blueprint to reform the costs regime.

Solicitors will not abandon large swathes of personal injury claimants if they are paid less than now, Lord Justice Jackson has predicted in a sharp retort to a much-publicised report which slated his recommendations for reform of the civil costs system.

A ban on referral fees is back on the Ministry of Justice’s agenda, a government adviser revealed yesterday. However, Mark Boleat told the Claims Standards Council conference in Manchester that he believed the arguments against a ban are “compelling”.

Personal injury and clinical negligence law firms facing competition from new entrants to the legal market need to change the way they market themselves, specialist legal outsourcing provider Collaboras warned this week.