Evaluating family care

Evans v Pontypridd Roofing Ltd (CA 9 November 2001)

The claimant, who was 34 at the date of the trial, was injured in 1995 so severely that his life was ‘devastated’. He required 24-hour care, including ‘a chat at night’ with his wife. Past care was valued at a little over £100,000, but the trial judge then reduced that figure by 25% to take account of the fact that the care had been given by the claimant’s ‘devoted wife’. The judge made the same deduction from lifetime future care.