Administration of Justice Act 1982
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1982 c. 53 |
| Year | 1982 |
- Abolition of actions for enticement, seduction and harbouring of child
- Fatal accidents
- Exclusion of section 14 of Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1937
- Orders for provisional damages for personal injury
- Part I: Section inserted in Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978
- Part II: Article inserted in County Courts Northern Ireland) Order 1980
- Interest on debts and damages
- Part III: Amendments Consequential on Section 69
- Crown Proceedings Act 1947 (c 44)
- Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c 23)
- County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980
- Part I: Repeals
- Part II: Repeals
Administration of Justice Act 1982
1982 CHAPTER 53
An Act to make further provision with respect to the administration of justice and matters connected therewith; to amend the law relating to actions for damages for personal injuries, including injuries resulting in death, and to abolish certain actions for loss of services; to amend the law relating to wills; to make further provision with respect to funds in court, statutory deposits and schemes for the common investment of such funds and deposits and certain other funds; to amend the law relating to deductions by employers under attachment of earnings orders; to make further provision with regard to penalties that may be awarded by the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal under section 47 of the Solicitors Act 1974; to make further provision for the appointment of justices of the peace in England and Wales and in relation to temporary vacancies in the membership of the Law Commission; to enable the title register kept by the Chief Land Registrar to be kept otherwise than in documentary form; and to authorise the payment of travelling, subsistence and financial loss allowances for justices of the peace in Northern Ireland.
[28th October 1982]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
(1)
In an action under the law of England and Wales or the law of Northern Ireland for damages for personal injuries—
(a)
no damages shall be recoverable in respect of any loss of expectation of life caused to the injured person by the injuries; but
(b)
if the injured person’s expectation of life has been reduced by the injuries, the court, in assessing damages in respect of pain and suffering caused by the injuries, shall take account of any suffering caused or likely to be caused to him by awareness that his expectation of life has been so reduced.
(2)
The reference in subsection (1)(a) above to damages in respect of loss of expectation of life does not include damages in respect of loss of income.
No person shall be liable in tort under the law of England and Wales or the law of Northern Ireland—
(a)
to a husband on the ground only of his having deprived him of the services or society of his wife;
(b)
to a parent (or person standing in the place of a parent) on the ground only of his having deprived him of the services of a child; or
(c)
on the ground only—
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