The Cost and Value of Personal Injury Law

Day and Worthington (eds), Challenging Private Law: Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court (Hart Publishing, 2020)

14 Pages Posted: 7 Feb 2021

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Nicholas McBride

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law

Date Written: November 20, 2020

Abstract

This paper was published (under the title 'Personal Injury Law') in a collection of essays marking the retirement of Lord Sumption from the UK Supreme Court. The paper discusses Lord Sumption's extra-judicial criticisms of personal injury law, and argues that the costs of personal injury law are harder to discern than he assumes, and that he overlooks the real value of personal injury law.

Keywords: Tort law, personal injury law, Lord Sumption, cost benefit analysis, philosophical foundations of tort law

JEL Classification: K13

Suggested Citation

McBride, Nicholas, The Cost and Value of Personal Injury Law (November 20, 2020). Day and Worthington (eds), Challenging Private Law: Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court (Hart Publishing, 2020), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3761404 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3761404

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