This webinar looks at the essential elements of a claim for damages in fatal accident litigation, considering all the information necessary to draft a credible schedule in support.

Gordon will be covering:

• Basic principles of the dependency calculation
• Claims for financial dependency
• Loss of a carer – the growing importance of claims for non-financial dependency
• Multipliers and periods of loss in fatal cases
• Bereavement damages
• Claiming injuries and losses of the deceased person prior to death
• Matters that are disregarded – the significance of Section 4 of the Fatal Accidents Act
• What a witness statement should contain
• Is expert evidence necessary?

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This webinar is part of a series

Other sessions in the series include:

Understanding the Law as to Fatal Accidents
Preparing a Schedule and providing evidence in a fatal claim
Fatal accident claims: Ensuring everything goes right 
The Key cases in fatal accident damages
Children and fatal accident litigation
Damages in anticipation of Death and damages for losses prior to death
An Introduction to the Law Coroner's Court

To book the whole series at a special rate, please visit
https://www.apil.org.uk/training/the-apil-fatal-accidents-webinar-series-2025