Travel claims: Holidays from hell

9 St John Street | Personal Injury Law Journal | February 2018 #162
In part two of their report on holiday damages, Kirsty McKinlay and Amy Rollings look at how to quantify losses after a non-package-holiday accident abroad ‘The expert evidence as to the applicable foreign law must be obtained at the outset, indeed, at the time of the very first notification of the claim and prior to …

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Accidents Abroad: Damage v Damages

Devereux Chambers | Personal Injury Law Journal | October 2013 #119
Georgia Hicks discusses Stylianou v Suncorp and Rome II the Applicable Law in International Personal Injury Law ‘Providing a more manifest connection can be established with the victim’s home country than the country of the accident, claimants may be able to apply their own domestic law.’ The recent case of Stylianou v Toyoshima [2013] has …

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Evidence and Procedure: Getting to grips with the substance/procedure divide under Rome II

Devereux Chambers | Personal Injury Law Journal | March 2013 #113
Robert Weir QC explains the significance of the first High Court decision to consider as a preliminary issue what provisions governed the instruction of experts ‘Rome II provides a set of rules to permit a court to determine what the applicable law is to the claim in tort.’ Rome II is an instrument for harmonising …

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