Court decision creates transgender PI ‘compensation lottery’
Minster Law has warned that the recent Supreme Court ruling on the definition of sex in the Equality Act has created uncertainty for personal injury compensation calculations for transgender claimants, which could result in award differences of up to six figures.
In April, the Supreme Court ruled that sex under the Equality Act means “biological” sex, and Minster Law has highlighted that this creates uncertainty over which actuarial tables should be used when
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