Cash compensation system is exacerbating our compo culture

This letter comes as a result of extreme frustration with the procedure in which personal injury claims are dealt with in the courts.

I read a national newspaper daily, and every day without fail I am bombarded with articles about people like ‘Jimmy’ who got almost €40,000 because he slipped on a loose street kerb after coming out of a pub after consuming 10 pints, or ‘Ann’ who was out walking in the woods and tripped on the root of a chestnut tree and sued for €38,000 or ‘Mary’ who got a similar amount because her freshly-shampooed King Charles got his tail caught in the door of a downstairs en suite.

Unfortunately this is where the humour ends, we now live in a society where we do not want to be accountable or responsible for anything.