Injuries in UK Law
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British Transport Commission v Gourley
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In an action for personal injuries the damages are always divided into two main parts. First, there is what is referred to as special damage which has to be specially pleaded and proved. This consists of out-of-pocket expenses and loss of earnings incurred down to the date of trial, and is generally capable of substantially exact calculation. Secondly, there is general damage which the law implies and is not specially pleaded.
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Hughes v Lord Advocate
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No doubt it was not to be expected that the injuries would be as serious as those which the Appellant in fact sustained. But a defender is liable, although the damage may be a good deal greater in extent than was foreseeable. He can only escape liability if the damage can be regarded as differing in kind from what was foreseeable.
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McLoughlin v O'Brian
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The common law gives no damages for the emotional distress which any normal person experiences when someone he loves is killed or injured. Yet an anxiety neurosis or a reactive depression may be recognisable psychiatric illnesses, with or without psychosomatic symptoms. So, the first hurdle which a plaintiff claiming damages of the kind in question must surmount is to establish that he is suffering, not merely grief, distress or any other normal emotion, but a positive psychiatric illness.
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Davies v Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries (No. 2)
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In effect the Court, before it interferes with an award of damages, should be satisfied that the Judge has acted upon a wrong principle of law, or has misapprehended the facts, or has for these or other reasons made a wholly erroneous estimate of the damage suffered. It is not enough that there is a balance of opinion or preference. The scale must go down heavily against the figure attacked if the Appellate Court is to interfere, whether on the ground of excess or insufficiency.
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Wright v British Railways Board
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My Lords, given the inescapably artificial and conventional nature of the assessment of damages for non-economic loss in personal injury actions and of treating such assessment as a debt bearing interest from the date of service of the writ, it is an important function of the Court of Appeal to lay down guide-lines both as to the quantum of damages appropriate to compensate for various types of commonly occurring injuries and as to the rates of "interest" from time to time appropriate to be given in respect of non-economic loss and of the various kinds of economic loss.
As regards assessment of damages for non-economic loss in personal injury cases, the Court of Appeal creates the guide-lines as to the appropriate conventional figure by increasing or reducing awards of damages made by judges in individual cases for various common kinds of injuries.
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Fletcher v Autocar and Transporters Ltd
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It is true that in these days most defendants are insured and heavy awards do not ruin them. and large companies have to cover the claims by their premiums. If awards reach figures which are "daunting" in their immensity, premiums must be increased all the way round.
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Judicial review claim - criminal injuries compensation cases, England and Wales
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Chapter EIM74700
.... . . The Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983. The war pensions schemes are administered by the Veterans Agency, which is part of the Ministry of Defence. The schemes are ......
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Chapter IHTM10263
.... . . Whether or not sums received by the estate for personal injuries should be brought into account depends on the nature of the payment received. The following are taxable. (IHTM10264) Payments under the Law Reform ......
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Chapter IDG50700
.... . . Please note that in this guidance CICA refers to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority and not the Crime International Cooperation Act. Why share information with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority ......