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29 April 2021
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LNB News: APIL critiques laws on bereavement as out of date

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The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has published an article based on the report, ‘Bereavement damages: A dis-United Kingdom’, critiquing the laws on bereavement and labels them as ‘woefully discriminatory and out-of-date’. 

Lexis®Library update: The president of the APIL, Sam Elsby, said: ‘There is a postcode lottery when someone is wrongfully killed in the UK. Only a very rigid, prescribed list of relatives qualify for statutory compensation for their untimely loss in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland’.

Elsby continues to say that the law does not recognise those people that are single, and do not have children, but are still loved, missed and grieved for by other relatives, which is why such laws are out-of-date and are in need of a reform.

Source: Laws on bereavement “woefully” out of date

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