Association of Personal Injury Lawyers: Govt should stop unsolicited calls to injured people

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers: Govt should stop unsolicited calls to injured people

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers: Govt should stop unsolicited calls to injured people

Karl Tonks, vice-president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, highlights importance of transparency and calls for an end to unsolicited contact of injured people:

"The really important thing is for there to be transparency, so that the injured person, the consumer knows what's happening and their details are only passed on to anybody with their express consent.

"Solicitors are robustly regulated in this, we simply cannot and do not do it.

"Others are not so well regulated and we would welcome an effective ban of those text messages and unsolicited phone calls – I've received them, nobody wants to have them, and we would very much welcome action by the government and others to get rid of those."