Deducting Benefits from Damages for Personal Injury

`provides both exposition and policy analysis which is clear, concise and well-structured. For a practitioner the detailed discussion of the social security benefit recovery scheme alone would justify the purchase price.' Medical Law Review 9, Spring 2001 `provides both exposition and policy analysis which is clear, concise and well-structured. For a practitioner the detailed discussion of the social security benefit recovery scheme alone would justify the purchase price.' Medical Law Review 9, Spring 2001 `provides both exposition and policy analysis which is clear, concise and well-structured. For a practitioner the detailed discussion of the social security benefit recovery scheme alone would justify the purchase price ...if you want to understand both the policy issues and legal complexities of collateral benefits Deducting Benefits from Damages for Personal Injury is definitely the place to start ...' Medical Law Review 9, Spring 2001 `Deducting Benefits from Damages for Personal Injury provides both exposition and policy analysis which is clear, concise and well-structured. For a practitioner the detailed discussion of the social security benefit recovery scheme alone would justify the purchase price Over the years Richard Lewis has done much, almost single-handedly, to redress that imbalance, and this book represents another major contribution to that distinguished scholarship.' Professor Michael Jones, Medical Law Review `Deducting Benefits from Damages to Personal Injury is tht rare addition to the legal literature: a book which will be of value o practitioners and academics alike.' Nick Wikeley, Journal of Social Security Law, 8 2000 `Deducting Benefits from Damages to Personal Injury is written clearly and concisely throughout, and is beautifully presented by OUP. The book will no doubt be welcomed by those with a background in personal injury litgation, but is also recommended to those coming to this area of the law anew, seeking to bring a different perspective to a thoroughly hybrid legal issue.' Robert Williams, Trust Law International, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2000 `Professor Lewis' account of the present kaw is uncontroversially excellent ... [it] breaks new ground in its depth, thus filling a gaping hole in the material available to practitioners in this area.' Robert Williams, Trust Law International, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2000 `Lewis sets up a clear conceptual framework against which the present law can be evaluated, and helps the reader to bring order to an extremely difficult body of case law.' Robert Williams, Ttust Law International, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2000 `Nobody denies the importance of this subject ... Professor Lewis plugs a gap which urgently needed to be plugged, and he does it thoroughly and readably, never forgetting that many of his readers will be harassed practitioners impatient of philosophy. The result is a book which is immediately, and is likely to remain, the definitive text on the subject.' Solicitors Journal `Everything is here. This is not a remote, ivory tower view of the area, but brings the rigour of the ivory tower to bear on real practical problems.' Solicitors Journal `invaluable text ... It is rare for a text to combine practitioner value and practical guidance with an academic insight and analysis. This book is an example ... An excellent book, and a "must" for the PI lawyer's shelf.' Welfare Benefits, December 1999/January 2000