“Legal “vultures” are making £2 million out of the NHS each week” reported one Sunday Newspaper recently.

As usual, this figure was not put into context so as not to spoil a good story, but to quote Amanda Stevens, the vice president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) who responded to the criticism in The Law Society's Gazette,

“It is insulting to imply that rectifying the harm caused to people who have been carelessly or recklessly injured is somehow wrong”.

Too right.