This report is from this week's CNBC's UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Few things have captured the British public's imagination more this century than compensation. The U.K. never used to have a compensation culture, but things began to change when, in June 1995, solicitors were allowed to charge on a "no-win, no-fee" basis for the first time. The thinking was that, with the courts really only open to the very rich or the very poor (the latter supported by