Damages for Personal Injury

Status: This project includes a number of elements

Damages for Personal Injury: Medical, Nursing and Other Expenses; Collateral Benefits

This report recommends reforms designed to rationalise one of the procedural mechanisms used to control the prosecution process – the requirement in respect of certain offences that, as a condition precedent to the institution of criminal proceedings, the consent of either a Law Officer or the Director of Public Prosecutions is obtained.

Damages for Personal Injury: Non-pecuniary Loss

This report examines the principles governing, and the effectiveness of, the remedy of damages for monetary and non-monetary loss, with particular regard to personal injury litigation.