When assessing damages under the Act, the court’s job was limited to that of calculating financial dependency. The deceased had provided, as his wife, housekeeping services to the claimant, but she had been in poor and diminishing health. There was no way in reality of predicting whether she could have continued to provide those services or would have even become a housekeeping burden. Damages for loss of her housekeeping services were reduced from andpound;50,000 to andpound;20,000.
Citations:
Times 27-Jun-2000
Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Damages, Personal Injury
Updated: 11 May 2022; Ref: scu.89863
