Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases (Judicial College Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases)

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A number of other “tweaks” to the Guideline figures include the reshaping of some categories, including those relating to damage to reproductive organs to reflect the JC’s recognition “ that injuries leading to sexual dysfunction, loss of sexual function, and associated psychological sequelae may affect both men and women” and that previous figures for women had, as observed by the Professional Negligence Bar Association, focussed almost exclusively upon loss of fertility and reproductive capacity.

Compensation awards for multiple injuries are calculated on a case-by-case basis, as the individual compensation amounts cannot simply be added together.

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Where there have been no recent decisions in relation to specific types of injury, the inflation uplift may be the only discernible change. The relevant sections can be found at Sections E and F of chapter 6 and they provide more detail than in the previous edition of the guidelines. It is appreciated that some of the contents will cover areas of law, practice and procedure already well known to more experienced Judges, and will therefore be more helpful to some than to others. The Judicial College (formerly the Judicial Studies Board) has published the latest edition of its guideline damages for personal injury claims, more than 2 years since they were last updated in January 2020. The new tables for sexual abuse cases follow quite quickly on the observations of Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson in the recent case of TVZ and others v Manchester City Football Club Limited [2022] EWHC 7 (QB).In England, a new higher-risk buildings approval regime came into force on 1 October, but in Wales the equivalent regime has not yet been issued and is expected to contain some key differences. The “ Note on Whiplash Injuries: Tariff-Based Awards”, while bringing this new regime to the attention of those using the Guidelines, provides no new information or guidance.