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The Ever-Ageing 13-Year-Old Compensation Discount Rate - Thomas Crockett, 1 Chancery Lane

03/09/14. There has been a further delay to the much-anticipated and important decision on the discount rate to be applied to compensation. And this comes almost two years after conclusion of the consultation on the question of whether the current rate of 2.5% should be modified.

This issue is of course of extreme importance to anyone involved in injury litigation. The legal professions are somewhat divided as to whether the rate should be increased or decreased, along (usually) respectively defendant and...

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