Subjects:

Personal Injury Law

Contents:

Chapter 1: An overview of personal injury trusts

Chapter 2: Choice of personal injury trust

Chapter 3: Getting technical: Means-tested benefits

Chapter 4: Choice of trustees

Chapter 5: Personal injury trusts and investment

Chapter 6: Periodical payments and the Courts Act 2003

Chapter 7: Personal injury trusts and the Court of Protection

Chapter 8: Will-making in the context of personal injury bare trusts

Chapter 9: Property transactions and personal injury trusts

Chapter 10: Some problem areas

Chapter 11: General precedents

Chapter 12: Trust precedents

Chapter 13: The Standard Provisions of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

This book should enable personal injury lawyers to use their recovered damages effectively, to protect their clients against assessments of their capital and to take full advantage of the various kinds of state benefits (which are subject to capital assessments) where the state provides such benefits.

This new edition includes the changes arising from the Finance Act 2006 (effective on and after 22nd March 2006) and the alteration in benefits rules (effective on and after 1st October 2006).