TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stewart,William J.
TI  - How Much For A Leg?: Assessing the Process of Assessment of Non-Pecuniary Personal Injury Damages in Scotland 
SN  - 9781845860936
U1  - 346.4110323 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Damages
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Personal injuries
KW  - Law
KW  - LAW / Personal Injury
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Table of Cases --; Table of Legislation --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Alternative Methods of Assessment --; 3. Analysis and Assessment of the Assessment Process --; 4. Conclusions --; Appendices --; Appendix 1: Court-Disputed Non-Pecuniary Loss (Low Value) --; Appendix 2: Court-Disputed Non-Pecuniary Damages (Medium Value) ( JSB Use) (Other Disputed Issues) --; Appendix 3: How Much for a Leg? --; Appendix 4: A Reconstruction of the CICA 2001 Tariff of S elected Listed Injuries (Allocated up to £4,400 by Value Rather Than by Injury) --; Appendix 5: What People Say the Damages Should Be --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Reviews how personal injury damages are calculated in Scotland, together with suggestions for reform‘How much for my leg?’ This is an apparently simple question that someone might a lawyer after sustaining a wrongful injury to the said limb. But, in Scotland, no fixed answer can be given. Nor can any official range of possible figures be given. Only after some serious professional work, perhaps taking many hours, can a range of figures be suggested. This study of the assessment of non-pecuniary damages for personal injury reviews the state of current approaches in Scotland, considers the conclusions of the Gill Report and compares differing approaches in jurisdictions worldwide, before presenting possible options for reform
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748698523
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748698523
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748698523/original
ER  -