This article examines the development of structured settlements (periodic payment awards of damages for personal injury) in Britain against the longer Canadian experience of such damages. The comparison is particularly important given that many of the problems encountered in this country have...

This paper examines the law relating to employers' liability for causing personal injury in the UK. It compares liability in tort with the provision made by the social security scheme in paying industrial injuries benefit. It examines the different legal bases of these schemes and compares their...

This article seeks to identify the most reliable sources of statistical information about the workings of the personal injury litigation system in the United Kingdom to present their principal data in clear, straightforward and accessible form, and to subject them to critical analysis. These...