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Personal Injury - Practical Guidance

Get immediate access to the information you need to practise law.

LexisPSL provides you with expert practice notes to take you through a claim from establishing liability to taking a case to trial. You’ll have access to a wealth of essential tools including over 400 precedents and forms, medical drawings and a medical dictionary. And to diminish the time it takes you to calculate damages, we’ve included a quantum database and a suite of 20 calculators, taking into consideration the effects of interest, inflation and taxation over time. With this kind of support you can cut costs, save time, and focus on profitable client work.

PI Toolkit

The PI toolkit has been designed to help you work more efficiently by ensuring that you have all the resources and tools you need at your finger tips. It includes:

  • Quantum Case Database
  • LexisCalculate – A suite of 20 quantum calculators
  • Medical drawings
  • Medical dictionary
  • Clinical abbrieviations dictionary

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Meet the Personal Injury experts

Direct links to the relevant section of the underlying authority and commentary 

  • Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service
  • Bingham & Berrymans’ Personal Injury and Motor Claims Cases
  • Munkman: Employer’s Liability
  • Redgrave’s Health and Safety
  • Personal Injury Series - Asbestos Disease Claims (Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service)
  • Personal Injury Series - Stress Claims (Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service)

Working in partnership with leading firms

We take direction from our Consulting Editorial Board to ensure we consistently deliver relevant practical guidance so that you have the confidence to make more informed decisions, based on sound, practical advice.

Meet the personal injury team who have developed LexisPSL Personal Injury.

Choose from a comprehensive range of topics

Establishing legal liability

  • Proving negligence or breach of statutory duty
  • Liability defences

Types of claim

  • Road traffic accident claims
  • Work related accident claims
  • Vicarious liability claims
  • Occupational disease/medical conditions
  • Psychiatric and occupational stress claims
  • Claims against occupiers
  • Product liability claims
  • Claims against public authorities and the state
  • Accidents on the highway
  • Accidents abroad
  • Claims for criminal injuries
  • Clinical negligence
  • Injuries caused by animals
  • Trips and slips

Special claims

  • Claims involving a fatality
  • Claims involving a child
  • Claims involving a mentally incapacitated claimant

Damages

  • General damages
  • Past expenses and losses
  • Future losses
  • Interim payments, periodical payments and provisional damages
  • CRU and NHS charges

Limitation

  • Limitation in personal injury claims

Pre-action

  • Pre-action: general
  • Pre-action emergency relief
  • Pre action protocols
  • Part 36 offers
  • Pre-action disclosure
  • Search and seizure order

Litigation

  • Starting a claim
  • The claimant and statements of case
  • The defendant and statements of case
  • The defendant and additional claims
  • Requests for further information
  • Default judgment
  • Case management
  • Applications
  • Security for costs
  • Emergency relief
  • Summary judgment and strike out
  • Disclosure and inspection
  • Witness evidence
  • Expert evidence
  • Part 36 and offers to settle
  • Trial
  • Appeals
  • Judgments and orders
  • CPR Updates
  • Consultations and reports

Service

  • Introduction to service
  • Serving the claim form in the jurisdiction
  • Serving the claim form outside the jurisdiction
  • Serving documents other than the claim form
  • Problems with service

Costs

  • Jackson Reforms
  • Funding arrangements
  • Costs estimates
  • Fixed costs
  • Assessment – general
  • Summary assessment
  • Detailed assessment
  • Costs orders
  • Discontinuance
  • Costs only proceedings

Enforcement

  • Introduction to enforcement
  • Information hearings
  • Seizing the debtors possessions
  • Money owed to the debtor
  • Attachment of earnings
  • Charging orders
  • Equitable execution
  • Debt management and relief
  • Enforcement of foreign judgments
  • Enforcement overseas

ADR

  • Understanding mediation
  • The Mediator
  • Mediation documents
  • Conducting the mediation
  • Understanding ADR
  • ADR clauses
  • Types of ADR

Other information

  • Court and the legal profession

Professional Development

Our webinars represent the most efficient way for you to develop your knowledge, delivering expert advice and guidance to you when and where you choose. A 12-month webinar subscription ensures you receive all the training and CPD points you need and because you choose the time and place, there’s virtually no impact on your working day and absolutely no travel costs.

Our conferences provide immediate and direct access to the thought leaders in your industry and a large number of your fellow professionals. Six to eight case studies provide an insight into how top experts are dealing with key points of law and need-to-know judicial rulings. Supporting workshops offer practical and specific guidance. Carrying up to 6.5 CPD points each, our one-day conferences are an opportunity to network, debate and discuss with the key personnel in your industry - away from the office and in a top-class environment.

 Events cover the full spectrum of personal injury law topics and are delivered by field experts such as:

  • Nicholas Bevan, Senior Counsel, Bond Pearce LLP
  • Richard Methuen QC, 12 King’s Bench Walk
  • Stephen Worthington QC, 12 King’s Bench Walk
  • Andrew Stinchcombe, Head of Industrial Disease, Bond Pearce LLP          
  • Elaine Chapman, Partner, Weightmans
  • Rob Williams, Partner, Weightmans
  • Michael Bacon, Managing Director, A&M Bacon Ltd

Jackson: Want to find out more?

Jackson reforms: lots on the theory… but what about the practice? Be sure you are not caught out.

Click here for exclusive, complimentary material on the costs reforms, including LexisNexis videos and practice notes.

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"We have had the product in place for several weeks now. I have gone from sceptic to convert. The access that it gives at your fingertips to legal information I now feel will be invaluable. The knowledge of the demonstrators impressed me as did the way in which the administration of the purchase was handled with efficiency and ease. I believe we will not look back and wish we had made the decision a long time earlier."

Marc Folgate
Partner and Head of Personal Injury Litigation, Scrivenger Seabrook

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