Joan Campbell  MMR/MR UK group litigation back in 2004 the same year of the CDC fraud study on the MMR autism link. My Jack was one of the MMR10.  £15 million had been spent in legal aid fees up to that point, in preparing the case for trial. Less than £1 million was spent on the 28 expert witnesses who prepared their reports for the claimants. The rest went to the several firms of lawyers involved in representing the children. Not a penny went to the children themselves. When legal aid was withdrawn from the families the children were left alone to disentangle themselves from the complex legal web which could still prove financially disastrous for some of them in costs. [2006] ACCESS to JUSTICE.  MMR10 - IN EUROPE