Periodical payment orders

Part of Civil Liability Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee am 3:15 pm ar 11 Medi 2018.

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‘(1) Within 18 months from the coming into force of this Act, the Civil Justice Council must undertake a review of the impact of Part 2 and the setting of a new rate of return on the extent to which periodical payment orders are made by the courts in personal injury actions.

(2) A report setting out the results of the review must be laid before each House of Parliament by the Civil Justice Council within two years of the coming into force of this Act.’—

This new clause would require the Civil Justice Council to undertake a review and report to Parliament on the impact that the changes this Bill makes to the Discount Rate assumptions and mechanism has on the use of periodic payment orders.