This article is relevant to AQA A-level Paper 3 (tort law) and OCR A-level Unit 2 (law of tort).
Damages for injuries account for a large number of cases being heard in civil courts in the UK. A rise in the number of claims, partly blamed on contingency fee lawyers and cold callers encouraging people to sue, has led to rising insurance costs. This is most predominant in the motoring industry. The number of personal injury claims has risen from about 250,000 per year in 1973 to 1,200,000 in 2013–14. The majority of these claims are for road accidents (about 80%) even though the number of road accidents has stayed the same. Therefore it is time to ask the question of whether or not damages are successfully serving their purpose.
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