Accidents, Compensation and the Law: Cumulative supplement 1974 for use with volumes 1 to 19 (Law in Context)

by PeterCane (Author), P.S.Atiyah (Author)

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  1993

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  This text analyzes the law relating to compensation for personal injuries, and also the social, political and economic issues underlying the law. Topics new to this edition include: the treatment of disabled people, the increase in group litigation in disaster and drug cases, the formation of an association of plaintiff's lawyers specializing in personal injury cases, the introduction of Crown indemnity and the development of structured settlements. The ordinary law of torts and the social security system are discussed. Many inconsistencies and anomalies are brought out into the open, and the book has been re-designed with a view to making its message clearer and sharper.

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  2006

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  Since its first publication, Accidents, Compensation and the Law has been recognised as the leading treatment of the law of personal injuries compensation and the social, political and economic issues surrounding it. The seventh edition of this classic work explores recent momentous changes in personal injury law and practice and puts them into broad perspective. Most significantly, it examines developments affecting the financing and conduct of personal injury claiming: the abolition of legal aid for most personal injury claims; the increasing use of conditional fee agreements and after-the-event insurance; the meteoric rise and impending regulation of the claims management industry. Complaints that Britain is a 'compensation culture' suffering an 'insurance crisis' are investigated. New statistics on tort claims are discussed, providing fresh insights into the evolution of the tort system which, despite recent reforms, remains deeply flawed and ripe for radical reform.