Given the numbers, there must have been some recent even in the UK to have caused so many to cite it. Kind of like how everyone in the US grouses "spill hot coffee, get a million" any time they read a frivilous lawsuit story.
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Yes, though not as much as in America. However Britain is only a few short years behind on 'rights for muggers' and ambulance chasing attorneys. Reading between the lines, I'd venture that more than one of those comments has been written by the same person under different nommes de plume.
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