Download This PaperThe 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
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
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