Tort / Personal Injury

PIBA Personal Injury Handbook, 3rd edition

Edited by Frank Burton QC · Charles Cory-Wright QC · Simon Levene · Philip Mead
LexisNexis U.K. July 2007

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781846610547
Publisher
LexisNexis U.K.
Publication
July 2007
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

The handbook is a detailed and practical guide to the conduct of personal injury claims.


“a book of inestimable value”
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Otton taken from the foreword to the second edition
This work is ideal for practising barristers, solicitors and legal executives it combines both know-how about the fundamentals of personal injury law with the latest thinking on new and developing areas from some of the leading practitioners in the field.
It begins by dealing with the establishment of liability and goes on to look at how to construct a claim for damages and continues with an analysis of the applicable procedure as well as the law and practice relating to limitation, costs and funding.
This edition has been comprehensively revised and updated and includes new chapters on: Periodical payments, Motor Insurers’ Bureau, Rehabilitation, and Fatal Accidents.
The PIBA Personal Injury Handbook is an authoritative and practical reference work for all busy personal injury lawyers, suitable for use both in and out of court.

Table of Contents

Liability
  • Duty of care
  • Foreseeability
  • Causation
  • Contributory negligence
  • Expert evidence: the duties and liabilities of an expert
  • Recovering damages for psychiatric injuries
  • Employer's statutory liabilities
  • The European dimension to personal injury practice 
Damages
  • General damages
  • Multipliers for future loss and expenditure
  • Loss of earnings
  • Loss of pension
  • Damages for care
  • Valuing aids and equipment
  • Housing
  • Recoupment of damages
  • Mentally incapable claimants and the Court of Protection
  • Interest
  • Provisional damages
  • Interim payments
  • Periodical payments
  • Criminal injuries compensation
  • Rehabilitation 
Procedure
  • Limitation: resume and update 2006
  • Medical examinations
  • Surveillance evidence
  • Pre-action Protocols and the fast track
  • Proceedings involving children
  • Offers to settle
  • Compensation for victims of uninsured or unidentifiable users of motor vehicles
  • Fatal accident claims
  • Alternative dispute resolution 
Costs
  • Wasted costs and costs against non-parties
  • Conditional fee agreements 
Human rights

About the Author

General Editors
Frank Burton QC, 12 King's Bench Walk
Charles Cory-Wright QC, 39 Essex Street
Simon Levene, Barrister, 12 King's Bench Walk
Philip Mead, Barrister, Old Square Chambers
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