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Call to increase compensation for crime victims for first time in 30 years
Derby Telegraph
|January 01, 2026
ALEADING criminal injuries lawyer is calling on the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to lift the cap on compensation for victims of crime.
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Neil Sugarman, who has worked on criminal injuries and is the former president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), said it was a “national disgrace” the current £500,000 cap had not been increased in three decades.
Mr Sugarman criticised the overall performance of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) set up to provide compensation to victims of crime, which he said was becoming slower, more dysfunctional and had left lawyers unable to get answers about cases for months.
This story is from the January 01, 2026 edition of Derby Telegraph.
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