This article reveals some of the tactics which lawyers may use when conducting personal injury litigation. The research is empirically based by being drawn from structured interviews with a cross section of practitioners. This qualitative evidence helps to place the rules of tort in a wider...

The introduction of structured settlements into the U.K. in 1989 has proven to be one of the most important reforms ever made to the law of damages for personal injury. It is now essential to consider the periodical payment of tort compensation in any case where serious injury is involved. This...