When calculating losses of earnings, the court must allow for National Insurance contributions which would have had to have been paid by the plaintiff.
Citations:
[1963] 1 WLR 418
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – O’Brien and others v Independent Assessor HL 14-Mar-2007
The claimants had been wrongly imprisoned for a murder they did not commit. The assessor had deducted from their compensation a sum to represent the living costs they would have incurred if living freely. They also appealed differences from a . .
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Damages
Updated: 01 July 2022; Ref: scu.250040