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Personal Injury Law
Liability, Compensation, and Procedure

Second Edition

Peter Barrie

Price: £85.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927571-7
Publication date: 10 March 2005
910 pages, 16 line illus., 246x171 mm

A sample of this book is available in PDF format

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Reviews
  • 'The book's layout means that everything kept together in each chapter, rather than keeping the non-legal sources separate as its sets out to bring together as many sources as possible.' - APIL PI Focus, Volume 15, Issue 3.

Description
  • 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.

Contents
1. Overview
2. Legal Words and References
3. Grounds for Liability
4. Causation and Remoteness
5. Proof and Uncertainty
6. Contributory Fault
7. Defences
8. Road Accidents
9. The Motor Insurers' Bureau
10. Health and Safety at Work
11. Accidents at Building Sites
12. Tripping and Slipping Accidents
13. Defective Products
14. The State of Land and Buildings
15. Animals
16. Sports Injuries
17. Deliberately Intended Injuries
18. Criminal Injuries Compensation
19. Liability for Psychiatric Injury
20. Clinical Negligence
21. Injuries Causing Death
22. Inquests
23. Medical Terms
24. Some Common Injuries
25. Occupational Diseases
26. Compensation Payments
27. Injury Damages
28. The Use of Multipliers
29. Loss of Earnings
30. Handicap in the Labour Market
31. Loss of Pension
32. Nursing and Caring
33. Special Needs and Accommodation
34. Other Claims Including Credit Hire
35. State and Other Benefits
36. The Benefit Recoupment System
37. Fatal Accidents Act Claims Assessment
38. Provisional Damages
39. Structured Settlements
40. Investment Advice
41. Interim Payments
42. Interest
43. Relationships with Clients and Funding
44. Before Court Proceedings Begin
45. General Rules of the CPR
46. The Claim Form
47. Statements of Case
48. Schedules and Counter Schedules
49. Case Management and Allocation
50. Striking Out and Summary Judgement
51. Small Claims
52. Fast Track Claims
53. The Multitrack
54. More Than Two Parties
55. Disclosure
56. Evidence of the Facts
57. Experts
58. Applications and Trial
59. Limitation
60. Children and Patients
61. Settlement and Part 36
62. Costs
63. Appeals
64. Reference Information

Authors, editors, and contributors


Peter Barrie, Barrister, Guildhall Chambers, Bristol


Links to web resources and related information
More in the same subject area:
English legal system: personal injury
English legal system: civil procedure
Law as it applies to other professions
Medicine

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