How Much For A Leg? : : Assessing the Process of Assessment of Non-Pecuniary Personal Injury Damages in Scotland / / William J. Stewart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Stewart, William J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (100 p.) :; 3 B/W tables

Reviews how personal injury damages are calculated in Scotland, together with suggestions for reform‘How much for my leg?’ This is an apparently simple question that someone might a lawyer after sustaining a wrongful injury to the said limb. But, in Scotland, no fixed answer can be given. Nor can any official range of possible figures be given. Only after some serious professional work, perhaps taking many hours, can a range of figures be suggested. This study of the assessment of non-pecuniary damages for personal injury reviews the state of current approaches in Scotland, considers the conclusions of the Gill Report and compares differing approaches in jurisdictions worldwide, before presenting possible options for reform.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Alternative Methods of Assessment -- 3. Analysis and Assessment of the Assessment Process -- 4. Conclusions -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Court-Disputed Non-Pecuniary Loss (Low Value) -- Appendix 2: Court-Disputed Non-Pecuniary Damages (Medium Value) ( JSB Use) (Other Disputed Issues) -- Appendix 3: How Much for a Leg? -- Appendix 4: A Reconstruction of the CICA 2001 Tariff of S elected Listed Injuries (Allocated up to £4,400 by Value Rather Than by Injury) -- Appendix 5: What People Say the Damages Should Be -- Bibliography -- Index