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Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service is relied upon by thousands of personal injury professionals for its practical and comprehensive coverage of every aspect of personal injury litigation.

Edited by some of the UK's most senior and respected personal injury lawyers, it offers expert guidance on a whole range of topics, from motor insurance, medical negligence and industrial accidents to character assessment of witnesses, personality changes, damages for scars and the effect of inflation on claims.

It also incorporates an introductory chapter on PI litigation in the EU and US. Practical advice shows clearly how the law applies in a whole range of situations and means the reader can save hours of research time with this easy-to-use reference source.

The text is supported by questionnaires, worked examples, sample letters, precedents, model pleadings, checklists, tables of costs, anatomical drawings and a glossary of medical terms.

The work includes hundreds of quantum summaries, latest key cases and new quantums are regularly added as part of the service. Quantums are displayed with headnotes detailing amounts for each case, arranged in ascending order for easy reference.

Six issues per year and quarterly bulletins carrying feature articles of topical interest, notes on recent quantums, and information on recent legislation mean that subscribers have the latest information to hand.

An updated CD-ROM provides you with a wealth of draft letters, practitioners' forms, precedents and pleadings. Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service is also available online. Six looseleaf volumes, six service issues approx. per year (invoiced separately on publication), Letters, Forms and Pleadings CD-ROM, quarterly Bulletin.
Bulletins

I: Personal Injuries.

II: Fatal Accidents.

III: Road Traffic Accidents.

IV: Practice and Procedure.

V: Costs, Funding and Referral Fees.

VI: Limitation.

VII: Letters and Practitioners Forms.

VIII: Pleadings.

IX: Quantum Summaries.

X: Latest Key Cases.

XI: Case Digest.

XII: Medical Materials.

XIII: Statutory Materials and Practice Directions.

XIV: Special Damages Statistics.

XV: Claims of the Utmost Severity.

XVI: Criminal Injuries Compensation.

XVII: Clinical Negligence Claims.

XVIII: PI Litigation Abroad.

XIX: Product Liability.

XX: Risk Assessment.

XXI: Highways.

XXII: Children.

XXIII: Psychiatric Injuries.

XXIV: Liability of Public Authorities.

Appendices.

Table of Statutes.

Table of Statutory Instruments.

Table of Cases.

Index.
General editors:

Iain S Goldrein QC, MA (Cantab), ACI Arb, Barrister, Northern Circuit, Recorder, Visiting Professor (The Sir Jack Jacob Chair) in Litigation, Nottingham Law School, Companion of the British Academy of Experts; and Her Honour Judge de Haas QC, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Editors: Robert Hunter, Barrister; Michelle Bray, Legal Assistant; Nicholas Bevan, Solicitor; David Chalk, Head of Law, University of Winchester; His Honour Michael Cook; Dr Peter Ellis, Barrister; Emily Formby, Barrister; Adrian Cottam, Solicitor; Katherine Deal, Barrister; Rodney Nelson-Jones, Partner; Jonathan Glasson, Barrister; Nicholas Hancox, Solicitor; Patricia Hitchcock, Barrister; Simon John, Solicitor; Katrina London, Solicitor; Timothy Meakin, Barrister; Dr Evelyn Pollock, Barrister; Mary Ruck, Barrister; Neil Sugarman, Solicitor; Lisa Sullivan, Barrister; Kerry Underwood, Solicitor; Robert Weir, Barrister; Matthew Brunning, Barrister; Henry Pitchers, Barrister