Fatal Accident Claims: The past is a foreign country

St John’s Chambers (Chambers of Matthew White) | Personal Injury Law Journal | July/August 2012 #107
David Regan considers the basis of awards and common pitfalls ‘The Fatal Accidents Act 1976 serves a very important purpose: to protect the rights of dependants who are the secondary victims of torts that have resulted in death.’ The opening line of LP Hartley’s The Go-Between (1953), ‘The past is a foreign country, they do …

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Quantum: Minimising the value of special damages claims

1 Chancery Lane | Personal Injury Law Journal | June 2011 #96
Ben Hicks offers tips to defendants on how to attack schedules of loss ‘A counter schedule is the defendant’s opportunity to present its own interpretation of the evidence and to put forward its own calculation and assessments of the value of the claim.’ Whilst trite, it is worth starting any consideration of how to successfully …

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