Exaggerated and Fraudulent Claims in Personal Injury

The book is aimed primarily at UK personal injury practitioners ranging from solicitors and their employees and barristers to insurers and unqualified claims assessors. However, it is also intended to assist those who may be involved in personal injury claims either in their own right or peripherally. Non-UK practitioners will find it of great interest. No other book exists that addresses the subject - and whether practitioners are acting for the claimants or acting for defendants - they will find it invaluable.

1. Introduction
2. Pleadings and professional position
3. Burden of proof
4. Fraudulent claims
5. Low impact claims: admissibility of expert evidence
6. Low impact claims: causation and foreseeability
7. Exaggerated claims/malingering
8. Similar fact evidence
9. Surveillance evidence
10. Orthopaedic and psychological testing for exaggeration
11. Tax dodging Claimants
12. Proceeds of Crime Act
13. Abuse of process/tainted by illegality
14. Costs
15. Perjury/contempt of court

Appendix 1: Statutes
Appendix 2: Civil Procedure Rules