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Personal Injury Schedules
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
London :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2018.
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| Edición: | 4th ed. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- The Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Statutes
- Table of Statutory Instruments
- Table of Cases
- A General Principles
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Constituent Elements
- 3 Terminology and Fundamentals
- (i) General and Special Damages
- General damages
- Special damages
- (ii) Pecuniary and Non-pecuniary Loss
- Pecuniary loss
- Non-pecuniary loss
- Overlap between pecuniary and non-pecuniary loss
- (iii) Past and Future Expenses and Losses
- Past expenses and losses
- Future expenses and losses
- (iv) Reasonableness
- (v) Proportionality
- (Vi) Interest
- 4 The Aim of Compensation
- (i) Different Causes of Action
- (ii) Pecuniary Loss
- (iii) Non-pecuniary loss
- 5 Jurisdiction
- 6 The Time of Assessment
- (i) Generally
- (ii) Special Cases
- Damaged or destroyed chattels
- Reasonableness of decision-making
- Professional negligence
- Appeals
- 7 Entitlement to Claim
- (i) Entitlement in Law
- (ii) The Claimant's Loss
- (iii) The Rule Against Double Recovery
- (iv) Actionable Injury
- (v) Recoverable Loss
- (vi) Remoteness
- 8 Proof
- (i) The Burden of Proof
- (Ii) The Incidence of the Burden of Proof: Differences between Expenses and Losses
- (iii) The Standard of Proof
- (iv) The Need for Evidence
- (v) Types of Evidence
- (vi) Amount of Evidence
- (vii) Disclosure
- Pre-action disclosure
- Disclosure during the currency of proceedings
- Non-party disclosure
- Medical records
- Legal professional privilege
- Late disclosure
- Failure to disclose
- 9 Presumptions and Judicial Notice
- (i) Legal Presumptions
- (ii) Factual Presumptions
- (iii) Presumptions Which Are Not Made
- (iv) Judicial Notice
- 10 The Assessment
- (I) Pecuniary Loss
- Relevant factors
- Irrelevant factors
- Quality of life
- (ii) Non-pecuniary Loss
- 11 Exaggeration and Malingering
- (i) Conscious or Unconscious Exaggeration
- (ii) Malingering
- (iii) The Need for Psychological or Psychiatric Evidence
- (iv) Alleging Conscious Exaggeration/Malingering
- (v) Effect of Exaggeration/Malingering on the Assessment of Damages
- Unconscious exaggeration
- Conscious exaggeration/malingering
- 12 The Mechanics of the Award
- (i) Methods of Payment
- The current law
- (ii) Amount of Award
- (iii) Currency of Award
- 13 Aggravated and Exemplary Damages
- (i) Aggravated Damages
- Definition
- Applicability and assessment
- Examples of cases in which aggravated damages have been awarded
- Cases involving assault and similar torts
- (ii) Exemplary Damages
- Definition
- Applicability and assessment
- Examples of cases in which exemplary damages might be awarded
- B Schedules of Loss
- 1 The Need for a Schedule of Loss
- (i) The Background
- (ii) The Pre-action Protocols
- The Personal Injury Pre-action Protocol
- The Pre-action Protocol for the Resolution of Clinical Disputes