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Small Claims (Courts)

: I am grateful for my hon. Friend's reference to the National Accident Helpline, which has written to me to say that it would be happy with a limit of £1,500—he was quite right—and that it uses the inflation tables in Kemp and Kemp. That probably means more to other people in this Room than it does to me, but apparently it is an authoritative journal. According to those tables, the level would be £1,433 in 2006. The NAH cites evidence from the Judicial Studies Board publication, ““Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases””, which also demonstrates the effect of inflation on that level. Those guidelines are widely used by judges when assessing damages.