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Personal Injury Limitation Law (Criminal Practice Series)
How can you avoid the common pitfalls when navigating the complexities of personal injury limitation periods?This is a guide to the law of limitation periods in personal injury actions. Pitfalls and problems are highlighted and the limitation periods and service rules are clearly explained, ensuring that you never issue or serve proceedings outside the legal time limits. Each chapter is supplemented by summaries of the key cases for that topic and Part 2 contains all the relevant legislation.
New coverage includes landmark cases, explaining and analysing their impact on practice:
– Collins v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (Court of Appeal, 2014) – an asbestos-related lung cancer case of ‘seminal importance in relation to long tail industrial disease claims’
– Platt v BRB (Residuary) Ltd (Court of Appeal, 2014) – examination of constructive knowledge in the context of limitation in disease cases
– RE v GE (2015) – consideration of the court’s discretion, conferred by section 33 of the Limitation Act 1980 in the context of a sexual abuse case
– Abela v Baadarani (Supreme Court, 2013) – highlights an important shift of emphasis away from the traditional approach to service out of the jurisdiction and considerations of national sovereignty, and towards a more practical and pragmatic approach
– Barton v Wright Hassall (Supreme Court, 2018) – a crucial judgment regarding whether litigants in person should be granted a special status in civil litigationThis title is included in Bloomsbury Professional’s Personal Injury Law online service.
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Accounting for Real Estate Transactions: A Guide For Public Accountants and Corporate Financial Professionals (Wiley Corporate F&A Book 4)
Accounting for Real Estate Transactions, Second Edition is an up-to-date, comprehensive reference guide, specifically written to help professionals understand and apply the accounting rules relating to real estate transactions. This book provides financial professionals with a powerful tool to evaluate the accounting consequences of specific deals, enabling them to structure transactions with the accounting consequences in mind, and to account for them in accordance with US GAAP. Accountants and auditors are provided with major concepts, clear and concise explanations of real estate accounting rules, detailed applications of US GAAP, flowcharts, and exhaustive cross-references of the authoritative literature.Read more
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Personal Injury Schedules: Calculating Damages: Calculating Damages (Fourth Edition)
Personal Injury Schedules: Calculating Damages covers in one single volume all that the PI practitioner needs in order to calculate damages in a personal injury case. It provides a guide to the assessment of damages and presentation of schedules. The emphasis remains on the practical application of the rules and principles involved, covering a variety of claims ranging from the small to the catastrophic. Defendants are also catered for, with a substantial chapter on Counter-Schedules.The book contains comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the relevant principles and case law in a practical handbook style with valuable advice on presentation and strategy, complimented by a raft of precedents. Its key strengths are its clear and structured presentation and calculation of difficult items of loss with checklists, bullet points and tables offering immediate solutions for the busy practitioner, who needs accurate information on a daily basis in the courtroom or the office.
This new edition is fully updated to take account of the following developments resulting from case law since the last edition:
Fatal Accident Act multipliers: Knauer v MOJ [2016] UKSC 9;
Pre-existing conditions: Reaney v University Hospital of North Staffordshire [2015] EWCA Civ 1119;
Residual earnings discount factors: Billett v MOD[2015] EWCA Civ 773;
Review of the highest court award ever made: Robshaw v United Lincolnshire Hospitals NSH Trust [2015] EWHC 923 (QB);
Developments in the approach to interim payment applications: Smith v Bailey [2014] EWHC 2569 (QB);
Recoverability of credit hire claims: Brent v Highways & Utilities Construction & others [2011] EWCA Civ 1384; Opuku v Tintas [2013] EWCA Civ 1299; Zurich Insurance v Umerji [2014] EWCA Civ 357; Sobrany v UAB Transtira [2016] EWCA Civ 28;
Fatal accidents and incompatibility with the ECHR: Swift v Secretary of State for Justice [2013] EWCA Civ 193;
Periodical payment orders: RH v University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust [2013] EWHC 299 (QB); Wallace v Follett [2013] EWCA Civ 146;
Striking out dishonest claims: Fairclough Homes Ltd v Summers [2012] UKSC 26;
Assessment of multipliers when not constrained by the Damages Act 1996: Simon v Helmot [2012] UKPC 5;
Assessment of life expectancy: Whiten v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust [2011] EWHC 2066 (QB).This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional’s Personal Injury Law online service.
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