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This case tracker summarises key authorities on earnings related damages in personal injury claims arising from abuse. It sets out the case name and citation, the reasons for the award and the sum awarded. It also provides an indication of the present day equivalent value of awards, adjusted for inflation to early 2026, to assist practitioners in valuing abuse claims.The cases in this case tracker are listed from the lowest to highest value (present day equivalent value adjusted to early 2026).See our RPI Inflation calculator RPI Inflation to update quantum awards for inflation.This Practice Note should be read in conjunction with Practice Notes: Quantum in abuse claims and General damages and aggravated damages in abuse cases—case tracker.CaseBasis of awardAwardRPI adjusted (February 2026)AXB v Hossam Metwally [2023] EWHC 2470 (KB)(Oct 23)—Claimant’s injuries meant it was difficult to leave home—Had been working entirely from home—Was vulnerable on the open labour market given her difficulties leaving

This case tracker summarises key authorities on damages awarded in personal injury claims arising from abuse. It sets out the case name and citation, the nature and severity of the abuse, the psychological impact on the claimant and the sums awarded for pain, suffering and loss of amenity (PSLA), together with any aggravated damages (AD). It also provides an indication of the present day equivalent value of awards, adjusted for inflation to early 2026, to assist practitioners in valuing abuse claims.The cases in this case tracker are listed from the lowest to highest value (present day equivalent value adjusted to early 2026).See our Uplift for General Damages calculator, Uplift for General Damages to update quantum awards for inflation, the Simmons v Castle uplift and/or the Heil v Rankin uplift.This Practice Note should be read in conjunction with Practice Notes: Quantum in abuse claims and Earnings related awards in abuse cases—case tracker.CaseAbusePsychiatric consequencesAwardRPI/S v C adjusted (February

Reform of limitation in child sexual abuse claimsThe Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), published in October 2022, recommended reform of the Limitation Act 1980 (LA 1980) in order to remove the three-year limitation period for personal injury claims brought by victims and survivors of child sexual abuse.On 5 February 2025 the government issued a press release announcing that the three-year time limit for such claims would be removed and, in accordance with the IICSA recommendation, the burden would be on the defendant to ‘show a fair trial cannot proceed if they intend to block one’. The press release states that ‘all cases brought will proceed unless the defendant proves that a fair hearing cannot take place, for example due to lack of evidence’. The intention of the reform is to ‘enable cases to be heard more easily, and protect victims from reliving their trauma’. See: LNB News 05/02/2025 35. The Ministry of Justice’s Consultation Response published the same day also states:‘…removal

Initial considerationsQuantifying damages in claims involving allegations of abuse and assault is, as with any personal injury claim, a very fact specific exercise in which the starting point is in keeping with the general principles of assessing damages in tort claims; that the damages to be awarded are ‘that which is necessary to put each claimant into the position he would have been in if he had not been abused’ (TVZ and others v Manchester City Football Club Ltd at para [343]).However, a number of particular challenges do arise in the assessment of damages in abuse claims. General damages need to compensate the claimant both for having suffered the acts of abuse as well as long-term psychiatric injuries. Apportioning psychiatric injury and resulting damages between the abuse and other matters that the defendant is not liable for, can be an imprecise and contentious endeavour, especially where a claimant was a child at the time of the abuse and/or, as is often the case, has pre-existing vulnerabilities