Lawyers growing rich on NHS negligence

The lobbying in advance of Lord Justice Jackson's final report on his Review of Civil Litigation Costs continued to the last moment with The Times (see link) reporting on excessive legal costs in clinical negligence matters.  No doubt all true, but it didn't seem to add much to a similar article from The Times headed "Lawyers get more than victims in NHS compensation scandal" (see link) published back in March 2009.