Whiplash reforms put back until August
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced that implementation of the whiplash reforms will be delayed from 6 April to 1 August.
A written statement in Parliament by Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland said: “The government has decided that more time is necessary to make sure the whiplash reform programme is fully ready for implementation. We have always been clear that we need to do this right rather than hastily.
“In particular, we need to provide sufficient time to work with the Civil Procedure Rule Committee to put in place the supporting rules and pre-action protocol and to give industry sufficient time to prepare their businesses for the changes to how small road traffic personal injury claims are managed.
“We will also lay the statutory instrument in Parliament to introduce the tariff of damages for whiplash injuries.”
