On Saturday the 6th of March 2021, the Irish judiciary voted in
support of guidelines prepared by the Judicial Council's
Personal Injuries Guidelines Committee.
The Judicial Council, as we know, is made up of senior members
of the judiciary who have compiled personal injury guidelines and
these had been put to a vote of the 166 member Judicial
Council.
The Guidelines will, following amendment of existing
legislation, replace the Book of Quantum and serve to replace the
Book of Quantum which was last updated in 2016 which was last
updated in 2016.
The Book of quantum was compiled following a
non-legal/non-judicial analysis, which simply collected data from
thousands of closed personal injury claims in 2013 and 2014 and was
more of a data collection/correlation exercise rather than an
examination of values from a legal/judicial perspective, which is
now the case with the new Judicial Guidelines.
