PI & Clinical Negligence horizon scanner—August 2020 [Archived]


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Practice notes

PI & Clinical Negligence horizon scanner—August 2020 [Archived]


Published by a UUÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ PI & Clinical Negligence expert

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This Practice Note is a summary of the key legal developments of relevance to Personal injury and clinical Negligence practitioners as of August 2020. For the most recent horizon scanner, reference should be made to PI and Clinical Negligence horizon scanning and key cases—overview.

Ogden 8

On 17 July 2020, the Government Actuary’s Department published the eighth edition of the Ogden Tables. In this new edition, the explanatory notes have been completely rewritten and expanded to cover pension loss claims and periodical payment orders. The actuarial tables have been revised to use updated mortality assumptions and to cover a wider range of retirement ages.

The main changes contained in Ogden 8 are:

  1. •

    the expansion of the life expectancy section in Section A and​​ new guidance and examples on the interpolation of multipliers and calculating split multipliers for variable losses

  2. •

    revision of Section B which incorporates new guidance on when and how to depart from the ​​suggested Table A–D reduction

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What does Negligence mean?

Negligence is 'the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do' (Blythe v Birmingham Waterworks (1856) 11 Exch 781, at p 784). It is accepted that the test for breach of duty is objective, in the sense that the individual character and mental and physical features of the particular defendant are usually irrelevant.

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