Re John (A Minor : Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme): CA 9 Feb 2017

In assessing whether an individual applicant meets the necessary level of disablement giving rise to an entitlement to compensation in the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme, is the period of disablement to be taken into account limited to the applicant’s circumstances as they are at the date of the assessment? Or may the assessment take into account the future prognosis for the applicant?

Judges:

Sir Terence Etherton MR, Davis, Underhill LJJ

Citations:

[2017] EWCA Civ 61

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Personal Injury

Updated: 29 January 2022; Ref: scu.574297