Occupational Stress: Two of a kind

Rushmi Sethi | Personal Injury Law Journal | February 2017 #152
Rushmi Sethi explores the inter-relationships between personal injury and employment law, when dealing with liability for psychological injury in occupational stress claims ‘The inter-relationships between tortious liability in personal injury practice and employment law practice with regard to occupational stress claims involve “some overlap”, because there are potentially two different fora available for redress with …

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Chronic Pain: Assessing damages

Rushmi Sethi | Personal Injury Law Journal | November 2016 #150
Rushmi Sethi considers the association between trauma and chronic widespread pain ‘A former soldier who developed a chronic widespread pain condition as a result of an accident which occurred while he was serving as a paratrooper succeeded in establishing a claim against his employer where there was a clear temporal association between the accident and …

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Case Report: John Edward Billet v Ministry of Defence [2014] EWHC 3060 (QB)

12 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | October 2014 #129
Calculating future loss; Ogden ‘It appears the tension arises not from any misunderstanding of the Ogden tables themselves but from these tables providing an indication of a very broad range of problems.’ This judgment provides an interesting discussion of the tension between the judicial and statistical approaches to valuing quantum of future loss of earnings. …

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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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