Blog: Discount rate - the light at the end of the tunnel
The road to reform on the personal injury discount rate has been long and winding but Deborah Newberry, head of corporate and public affairs at global law firm Kennedys, suggests with the strict timetable in the law there is a light at the end of this tunnel.
It has been a long road to reform of the personal injury discount rate. The Ministry of Justice first started consulting on the subject in 2012, and it is only now being delivered.
The clock to
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