Housing Disrepair to Damages - A Guide to Personal Injury Claims

Introduction

Designed for personal injury lawyers, this webinar aims to give a comprehensive and up to date picture of this area that will allow you to be confident about bringing or defending a claim in what is a crossover area of law.

This webinar will provide practical information about case allocation, damages, and costs recovery, as well as recent case law and practical advice.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• What is disrepair? The landlord’s repairing obligations - express and implied terms
• The scope of the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957 and the Defective Premises Act 1972
• The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. In Wales - Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 ss91-99
• Briefly, other causes of action, eg. nuisance, negligence, public liability
• Limitation
• The Pre-action Protocols, allocation to track, disclosure
• Expert evidence and causation
• Damages - general damages for commonly encountered injuries such as asthma; special damages
• Costs, including ‘mixed’ QOCS cases

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Friday 20th March 2026

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