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A Predictable Revolution: Knauer v Ministry of Defence in the Supreme Court - Paul Stagg, 1 Chancery Lane

06/04/16. The Supreme Court has handed down its judgment [2016] UKSC 9 in the 'leapfrog' appeal to it from the decision of Bean J in Knauer v Ministry of Defence [2014] EWHC 2553 (QB).

Bean J's decision is available on BAILII at http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2014/2553.html and the Supreme Court's decision is at http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2016/9.html.

Permission for the 'leapfrog' appeal was given to enable the Supreme Court to consider a frontal challenge to the rules set out in Cookson v Knowles [1979] AC 556 and Graham v Dodds [1983] 1 WLR 808 for the calculation of multipliers in fatal cases. Those cases established that the multiplier was to be selected as arising at the date of death, with the number of years between death and trial being deducted from the multiplier to give...

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