Spillman v Bradfield Riding Centre: QBD 6 Feb 2007

The claimant child suffered very severe brain injury when kicked in the head by a horse at the defendant’s riding stables. The claimant appealed an interim award of damages. It had not been possible to determine her future earnings.

Langley J
[2007] EWHC 89 (QB)
Bailii
England and Wales
Citing:
CitedStringman v McCardle CA 19-Nov-1993
The Judge is not to be concerned with the intended application or use of interim damages requested to be paid to a Plaintiff. . .
CitedCampbell v Mylchreest CA 23-Jan-1998
The claimant sough an interim award of damages.
Held: An ‘unlevel playing field’, in the sense that an interim award might prejudge arguments which might be run at a full trial, is not an absolute bar to making the requested order but only a . .
CitedDolman v Rowe 2005
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CitedCampbell v Mylchreest CA 23-Jan-1998
The claimant sough an interim award of damages.
Held: An ‘unlevel playing field’, in the sense that an interim award might prejudge arguments which might be run at a full trial, is not an absolute bar to making the requested order but only a . .

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Personal Injury, Damages

Updated: 10 December 2021; Ref: scu.248403