Cases

Angel v Stainton & Another

Issue

The appropriate level of compensation under the offer of amends procedure bearing in mind the two-stage test: the first stage is to identify the figure which the judge would award at the conclusion of a hypothetical trial in which there is no aggravation to the claimant’s feelings; the second stage is to consider to what extent (if at all) that figure should be discounted to give effect to any mitigating factors of which the defendant is entitled to take advantage.

Also