Subjects:

Personal Injury Law

Contents:

Duty of Care

Foreseeability

Causation

Contributory

Negligence

Expert Evidence

Psychiatric Injuries

Employer’

s Liability

European

Dimension

General Damages

Multipliers

Loss of Earnings/Earning Capacity

Pension Loss

Care

Aids and Equipment

Housing

Recoupment

Patients/Court of Protection

Interest

Provisional Damages

Interim Payments

Periodical Payments

Criminal Injuries

Compensation

Rehabilitation

Limitation

Examinations

Video Surveillance

Pre-Action Protocols and the Fast Track

Children

Part 36 Offers and Payments

Motor Insurers Bureau

Fatal Accidents Act

Mediation/ADR Costs

Wasted Costs

Conditional Fees

Human Rights

The PIBA Personal Injury Handbook is a detailed and practical guide to the conduct of personal injury claims. Ideal for practising barristers, solicitors and legal executives it combines both know-how about the fundamentals of personal injury law with the latest thinking on new and developing areas from some of the leading practitioners in the field.

It begins by dealing with the establishment of liability and goes on to look at how to construct a claim for damages and continues with an analysis of the applicable procedure as well as the law and practice relating to limitation, costs and funding.

This new edition has been comprehensively revised and updated and includes new chapters on:

• Periodical payments
• Motor Insurers’ Bureau
• Rehabilitation
• Fatal Accidents