Tag: NHSLA
Lord Chancellor announces changes to personal injury compensation payments
On 27th February, Elizabeth Truss announced her decision to lower the Discount Rate from 2.5% to minus 0.75% in accordance with the law and in her capacity…
Harmans Costs Brief – Summer 2016
Gary Knight asks who’d be a Costs Judge these days following several decisions being overturned on appeal. There’s also analysis of another recent interesting case…
Costs Judges overturned on Appeal – Gary Knight investigates
It is perhaps not the best of times if you are a costs judge with their decisions being overturned on appeal. Foskett J sitting with…
Harmans Costs Brief – July 2015
This month Costs Brief focuses on a recent report which recommends that pro bono work becomes mandatory for all lawyers, Partner Gary Knight’s strong response is…
The National Health Service Litigation Authority
According to the latest figures, last year the NHS paid out £1.2 billion in clinical negligence claims, of which £259 million was paid to patients’…
