Doctors question evidence  - Tackle spurious compo claims

Last week RTÉ reported that a person convicted of burglary, and with almost 100 convictions, was given a suspended sentence because the court felt the person “deserved one last chance”.

This was another instance of a judge being disconnected from what society expects of our courts — a system rightly given independence, but one that needs to remember what its primary responsibilities are. That impression of disconnect was strengthened when the Irish College of General Practitioners described the majority of whiplash claims brought to our courts as “frankly spurious”. That statement was made in a submission to a Personal Injuries Commission group considering our compensation culture.