As she points out, the CCA will be able to cherry pick cases, whereas the commission is statutorily obliged to consider all applications.
"Cherry picking is a practice in which securities professionals allocate profitable trades to a preferred account (like their own) and less profitable or unprofitable trades to a non-preferred account (like a customer's)." In recent years, the Commission has brought more cherry picking cases than in the past because it has more data and better tools to detect suspicious trade allocations.
Defendants said the move fit a pattern of favoring the law firm in court rulings and other actions, such as allowing Weitz & Luxenberg to "cherry pick" cases set for trial.
She posited that his framework was the result of cherry picking case studies that later ended up proving him wrong anyway.
As for comparisons with Europe's "cosseted economies," why cherry-pick basket cases?
Make no mistake, as the Council of Europe's human rights commissioner has warned, moves to cherry-pick which cases to implement would lead the convention system to "unravel".
And suppliers may cherry-pick easier cases or steer patients towards less-appropriate care in order to look good; this is already a problem in education, where league tables encourage schools to gerrymander their intake and push students towards easier courses.
In doing so, we've rejected the approach the last government took in setting up independent sector treatment centres, setting an arbitrary percentage of services that had to be run by the private sector, with guaranteed volume levels that allowed them to cherry-pick easy cases.
Doctors told Reid what would happen: the private companies would cherry-pick the easy cases, leaving the difficult, expensive ones with the NHS, which would also have to pick up the pieces if they botched an operation.
Pressed as to what Labour would do to support charities, Nandy says she would like a more flexible commissioning structure that recognises that payment-by-results contracts can be really problematic for charities, which, unlike private companies, are not going to cherry-pick the easiest cases just to meet targets.
