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Facts and Figures 2025/26

Posted by Piba · July 17, 2025 9:48 AM

Sweet & Maxwell are due to publish the latest edition of FACTS & FIGURES 2025/2026 TABLES FOR CALCULATIONS OF DAMAGES in September.

PIBA members are being offered a 20% discount

Below are the formats & and standard rate prices.  – Print,  Ebook  or Print & Ebook bundle.

To order a copy, please email David Dooley at Thomson Reuters indicating which format you want :- .  

[email protected]

Sweet and Maxwell discount

Posted by Piba · May 28, 2025 1:13 PM

As part of the partnership with Thomson Reuters Sweet and Maxwell, PIBA members can now enjoy a 20% discount on various publications of relevance to personal injury practitioners.

Publications include:

Foskett on Compromise 10th Edition – September 2024

Charlesworth & Percy on Negligence 16^th edition – June 2025

McGregor on Damages 22^nd edition mainwork & 1^st supplement – June 2025

McGregor on Damages 22^nd edition, 1^st supplement only – June

Clerk & Lindsell on Torts 24^th edition mainwork & 2^nd supplement – July 2025

Clerk & Lindsell on Torts 24^th edition, 2^nd supplement only – July 2025

Jackson & Powell 9^th edition mainwork & supplement – December 2024

Jackson & Powell 9^th edition, 3^rd supplement only – December 2024

Gatley on Libel & Slander 13^th edition mainwork & 1^st supplement – November 2024

Gatley on Libel & Slander 13^th edition, 1^st supplement only – November 2024

Asbestos: Law and Litigation 2^nd edition – June 2022

Medical Negligence 6^th edition – September 2021

Brain Injury Claims 2^nd edition – June 2020

The Regulation of Healthcare Professionals 2^nd edition – June 2019

Personal Injury Pleadings 6^th edition – May 2019

To make your order please email [email protected] and quote discount code 2025PIBA or visit www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and apply the code at checkout.

BSB Update on the Claims Management Question

Posted by Piba · April 01, 2025 11:12 AM

Following a meeting with the BSB this afternoon, PIBA has been asked to share the following message from the BSB:

This year’s Authorisation to Practise (AtP) process contained a new question, asking about barristers’ involvement in claims management activity.

 Following feedback from the Bar Council, the Personal Injuries Bar Association (PIBA) and a number of individual barristers, we recognise that the question’s framing and supporting guidance created confusion as to how respondents should answer.

We would like to apologise for any confusion.

We are aware that individual barristers have taken different views on how to answer the question, and so the data will not provide the level or quality of intelligence we hoped to gather.

On that basis we will not be using the data from this question and will delete it once the AtP process is completed, at the end of April. This question will not appear on next year’s AtP.

If you have already answered the question, the data will simply be ignored.  There is no need to contact BSB records or seek to change any answer given thus far.  If you have not yet completed your ATP, answer the question “no”.

They will be sharing this updated guidance more widely on their website and messaging.  PIBA has also informed the Bar Council and the PNBA.  Please feel free to share this message far and wide.

10,000 Black Interns Sponsor

Posted by Piba · June 21, 2024 11:25 AM

PIBA are proud to support the Bar Council's engagement in the 10,000 Black Interns Initiative.

More information can be found here

PIBA releases its new Statement of Values

Posted by · April 18, 2024 1:57 PM