Equally Iain Duncan Smith, the work and welfare secretary, has his hands full ensuring universal credit spreads to every jobcentre and to every category of claimant.
It also introduced new rules to fuel more collective proceedings on behalf of claimant groups, putting it closer to the US model of class action lawsuits.
The university, the Warburg Institute advisory council and the attorney general agreed that the university should undertake the role of claimant.
The report also challenges the assertions of Boris Johnson and his more bumptious media chums that early predictions of substantial numbers of claimant households having to move were baseless.
"If you want to have a body of defamation law and body of privacy law in which you have small claims or court of complaints for ordinary people to have access to courts system... possible maybe to explore some sort of claimant court.
Research from London Councils has found that while the number of claimant households in Inner London fell by 1,571 (2%) during 2012, it rose by 11,663 (9%) in Outer London of which 10,454 contained people with jobs (90%).
