Compensation Culture: Fact Or Fantasy ?

Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls, gave a speech recently entitled, “Compensation Culture: Fact Or Fantasy?” He began by explaining, “Compensation culture encapsulates the idea that for every accident, for every injury or loss suffered someone other than the individual who suffers the loss is to blame and to borrow the phrase, where there’s blame there is a claim – and there’s always blame. Compensation is being sought improperly because the claims do not rest on the application of any legal principles, such as the need to establish a duty of care, negligence or causation.