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PI and Medical Law Teams - Case Note on THOMPSTONE and associated appeals

Posted: 17th February 2008

This article explores the Court of Appeal's powerful and unanimous decision in 4 related appeals, that indexation other than the RPI can and should be used in periodical payment orders for certain heads of future loss and that the Defendants' 'distributive justice' argument based on 'affordabiity' should be robustly rejected in favour of 'corrective justice'.