There was an extraordinarily revealing moment during a recent BBC interview of Kenneth Clarke by Joshua Rozenberg for the Law in Action programme.
Towards the end of the programme Mr Rozenberg asked a key question: ?The proposal is that the people who are the victims of clinical negligence will have to pay from their damages towards the success fee of their lawyers. Isn?t it right that if a court says you are entitled to damages, that?s what you should get??