PEDIATRICS Vol. 84 No. 2 August 1989, pp. A56
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BRITISH BARRISTERS FOR NO FAULT

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After years of inertia there are now almost daily developments on the issue of compensating those injured by medical treatment. Probably the most important recent development has been the support expressed for no fault compensaction by eminent lawyers at the annual bar conference. . . . Around the world—and particularly in the United States—lawyers have been one of the main forces obstructing the introduction of such schemes. The support expressed for introducing such a no fault scheme by the chairman of the Law Commission and the judge who made the first Lim award in a case of medical negligence must thus greatly increase the pressure on the government to act.