Appeal by the defendant driver against the level of an award of damages to a minor suing by her next friend The plaintiff cross-appeals to argue that it was not large enough. The action resulted from a motor accident on 30th August 1983. The defendant was driving a motor car towing a caravan. His wife was a passenger in the car when the car and caravan overturned and his wife was killed. Liability was not disputed.
Parker, McCowan LJJ, Sir David Croom-Johnson
[1992] EWCA Civ 13, [1992] 1 WLR 986
Bailii
England and Wales
Damages, Personal Injury
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