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Personal Injury weekly highlights—21 March 2019

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Published on: 21 March 2019

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This week’s edition of Personal Injury highlights includes the announcement that the Lord Chancellor started a review of the discount rate on 19 March 2019 and will make a decision about the rate on or before 5 August 2019. We also have a Brexit SI which has been made so that once the UK leaves the EU the MIB will no longer act as a compensation body for UK residents injured in road traffic accidents in the EU. We have our usual round-up of key cases and news as well as webinar dates for your diaries, recent Q&As and New Law Journal articles of interest. We also have details about a new Practice Note which has been published on personal injury claims involving a party that has been made bankrupt or insolvent and a new clinical negligence Practice Note on anaesthetic claims.

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