Tort law

'Jackpot justice' could be referred as 'the practice of awarding huge monetary settlements to plaintiffs in court cases'. Generally, it gives confidence to people to 'file multimillion-dollar lawsuits', not considering of the actual harm or loss suffered, which directly leads to a sense of 'compensation culture'. As a matter of fact, it has weigh down US with the most expensive tort system in the world, costing 2.23 percent of the GDP (US$246 billion) a year, compared to less than 1 percent in other countries like United Kingdom, Canada, France and Japan. Apparently, it gives the impression that the tort system in England and Wales is discouraging such culture according to this statistic. It is, however, not the real case anymore in this day and age, since the situation is getting worse and worse radically, and the government eventually has to urge for reforms to improve the tort system as well as to bring down the number of frolicsome claims.

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Frostating Court of Appeal

With regards to the purpose of damages in tort in England and Wales, it is to restore the claimant in the position one would have been in if the wrong action of others had never been committed, by means of compensate financially, injunctions or other remedies. This principle is called restitution in integrum. In many state of affairs, tort damages are only monetary settlements, so there is an understandable risk that the claimant is 'either under-compensated or over-compensated'. Yet on the other hand, the compensatory damages are designed to put the claimant in the original position that they should not end up worse off or better off. In this way, even the claimants could get huge damages, which are to compensate for their huge loss and to put them back in the original position that they are...