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CoA ruling sees local authority payments deducted from damages

The Court of Appeal ruled today in the case of André Crofton v The National Health Service Litigation Authority that if a person seeks and obtains payments from his local authority to pay for some or all of his care needs, then those payments must be taken into account in the assessment of his damages.

Janet Sayers, Head of Healthcare at law firm Kennedys who represented the NHS Litigation Authority, explained: "There can no longer be any doubt about this issue which has caused much disagreement

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