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03 February 2023 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8011 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way , CPR
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Civil way: 3 February 2023

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Insurers lashed by whipping; special account up; mousing to midnight; equity demands detriment; truth in the CoP; posties deemed to work; words to take your heart away

MIXED INJURIES, MIXED JUDGMENTS

At last. The Court of Appeal has spoken—two tongues to one—on the construction of s 3 of the Civil Liability Act 2018 (CLA 2018) (see ‘Civil way’, 171 NLJ 7924, p15). The question raised by the leapfrogged appeals in Hassam and another v Rabot and another [2023] EWCA Civ 19 was how the court was to assess damages for pain, suffering and loss of amenity (PSLA) where the claimant suffers a whiplash caught by a tariff but also suffers additional injury which falls outside the scope of CLA 2018 and does not attract a tariff award.

The majority answer, adopting the claimants’ secondary case (with another win for Benjamin Williams KC) was that the court should assess the tariff award by reference to the Whiplash Injury Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/642); assess the award for non-tariff injuries on common

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The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

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NLJ this week: Why GP complaints are going nowhere
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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