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
Barrister
Kings Chambers, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham and 4-5 Gray's Inn Square, London
Gordon was called to the Bar in 1991 having originally qualified and practised as a solicitor. He practices from Kings Chambers, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham and 4-5 Gray's Inn Square, London. He works in the area of personal injury litigation and in the law relating to civil procedure, limitation and costs. He has a particular interest in issues relating to damages, evidence, costs and procedure.
Gordon is a former executive committee member of APIL and has lectured widely for APIL and CPIL on personal injury and procedure topics. Gordon is the author of Personal Injury Practice Notes (Cavendish); The APIL Guide to Fatal Accidents (now in its 4th edition); the 14th edition of Munkman and Exall on Damages for Personal Injury Death and Periodical Payments the New Law. He also wrote the section on limitation for the APIL loose-leaf and contributes two chapters to Munkman on Employer’s Liability... view full biography