Case Report: Marsh v Ministry of Justice [2017] EWHC 1040 (QB) (Part 1)

12 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | September 2017 #158
Stress at work, psychiatric injury, disciplinary investigations ‘The judge found that the reasons given for the delay following the discontinuance of the police investigation against the claimant were unjustified and there was no consideration of its effect on the claimant’s health.’ Following a 15-day trial before Thirlwall LJ (as she now is; she was promoted …

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Case Report: Harries v Stevenson [2012] EWHC 3447

12 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | February 2013 #112
Discount rate; Damages Act 1996; preliminary issue A single fixed discount rate was preferable in reducing the cost and uncertainty of future loss calculations. In Harries v Stevenson [2012], a claimant tried and failed to escape from the arguably unjust effects that the 2.5% discount rate creates in the current economic climate. The case provides …

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Investment: Lack of return

Nestor Partnership | Personal Injury Law Journal | June 2011 #96
Andrew Sands and Nicholas Martin examine the issues relating to the discount rate and conclude that a reduction in the rate should be inevitable ‘Reality means that life expectancy is always, by its very nature, an estimate so will be wrong. This introduces mortality risk, which if the claimant lives longer than expected means that …

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