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Personal injury discount rate: single, dual or multiple?

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said that it will not be recommending a policy position or deciding on whether a dual/multiple PIDR should be introduced at this time.

13 September 2023
Personal injury update: 23 June 2023 Premium Content
Vijay Ganapathy discusses recent developments in sports injury & noise-induced hearing loss claims, plus the rules on limitation for professional negligence cases
23 June 2023 / Vijay Ganapathy
Claimants left waiting for justice
Justice is slow, with small claims taking a year to reach court (51.9 weeks), the latest Ministry of Justice (MoJ) civil justice statistics show.
07 June 2023
Are we on track with the draft fixed costs rules? Premium Content
Andrew Parker reviews the draft rules for extending fixed costs to cases valued up to £100,000
02 June 2023 / Andrew Parker
Mistakes on a plane Premium Content
What is an accident? Asela Wijeyaratne & Mark Welbourn examine a return to orthodoxy under the Montreal Convention on air passenger liability
02 June 2023 / Mark Welbourn / Asela Wijeyaratne
NLJ this week: Quantifying recovery where financial downturn exists
In tort, quantifying the extent of financial loss is a complex task for the courts. In this week’s NLJ, Ian Gascoigne, dispute resolution solicitor at LexisNexis, looks at the role played by the judge in such a case, considering caselaw and the many factors that must be taken into account.
26 May 2023
Market impact: what’s recoverable? Premium Content
How can the courts determine the extent of economic loss due to financial downturns in a tort claim? Ian Gascoigne discusses the challenges of striking the right balance
26 May 2023 / Ian Gascoigne
Image-based abuse: routes to justice Premium Content
How can the civil law help victims of image-based sexual abuse? Zahra Awaiz-Bilal reports on a landmark decision of the High Court
28 April 2023 / Zahra Awaiz-Bilal
NLJ this week: QOCS reform creates ‘perilous’ situation for claimants
The recent change to QOCS (qualified one-way costs shifting) may have tipped the balance in favour of defendants, Samuel Hayman, partner, and Tom Jenkinson, senior associate solicitor, Bolt Burdon Kemp, write in this week’s NLJ.
21 April 2023
Employment law brief: 21 April 2023 Premium Content
On the clock: in this month’s employment brief, Ian Smith discusses judges acting up, bonus bonanzas & failures to mitigate
21 April 2023 / Ian Smith
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Online safety against serious harm
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
Law reform ahead
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
Bullying & harassment at the Bar
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
The Sentencing Bill: Crime & punishment revisited
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
Changing faces
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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