The government's proposals to reform personal injury claims were put to its first real test in the House of Lords as the Civil Liability Bill reached Report Stage. Ninety amendments were tabled, many of them the government's own amendments. The session ran to almost seven-and-a-half hours; debate continued until almost 23.00. The more significant amendments - and how they ended up following lengthy debate - are set out below: Opening the debate, government whip, Baroness Vere of Norbiton spoke to Amendments 1 and 4 which concerned the full definition of a "whiplash injury" within the Bill. She explained that the government, given it had "carefully considered" the views of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Committee and of peers, had reached the conclusion that such a definition should "be defined in full in the Bill rather than in regulations".
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