Personal Injury Law Liability, Compensation, Procedure, 2nd Edition

Fully updated to cover new cases, commentary and recent legislative developments
Comprehensive coverage of the whole range of modern personal injury practice with sections on liability, assessment of damages and claims procedure
Easy access direct to the sources, including the full text of the Judicial Studies Board Guidelines, and the Ogden Tables
Each of the 64 chapters contains commentary followed by the relevant materials
Includes anatomical diagrams to assist with the understanding of medical terms in legal reports
A companion website dedicated to developments in this area of the law, will keep the book up-to-date
New to this edition

Expanded discussion of contributory negligence
Includes a table of time speed and distance for the analysis of road accidents
Includes the new MIB Untraced Drivers's Agreement
Full text of the Code of Best Practice on Rehabilitation
New protocol for disease claims
More detailed discussion on the treatment of care claims and the conflict of interest that arises
New section on the effects of bankruptcy
Updated and more accessible page layout
Now in its second edition, Personal Injury Law: Liability, Compensation and Procedure (previously known as Compensation for Personal Injuries in the 1st edition) is a uniquely convenient and reliable reference work, providing clear summaries of the law, and easy access to the key relevant claims, practice rules, statutes and materials across the whole range of modern personal injury practice. This edition has been fully updated and covers a number of new cases along with more practical advice.

Each of the 64 chapters begins with a concise account of the main points of law followed by the relevant source material, annotated with case references and finer details

The book also includes:

· All relevant statutory texts
· Relevant parts of the key Health and Safety Regulations
· Full text of the 2004 JSB Guidelines
· Extracts from the Ogden Tables
· The CICA scheme and MIB agreements
· Legal and medical glossaries
· Anatomical illustrations

Whether concerned mainly with claimants or defendants, users of this book can rely on it as a sure guide in the complex area of personal injury law and practice.

A companion website dedicated to developments in this area of the law, will keep the book up-to-date. This can be found at the following location: http://www.oup.com/uk/law/practitioner/cws
Readership: primary: Civil practitioners and litigators; solicitors and barristers acting for claimants and defendants in injury compensation claims. Secondary: Insurance professionals; advisory bodies (trade unions, CAB, etc); reference libraries.