ABSTRACT
The British welfare state exceptionally steps in to compensate those who have suffered injury without proof of fault – individual or collective. Relevant, well-established schemes include: the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, and the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit scheme. This contribution provides an overarching understanding of these schemes, treating them as a coherent whole. Additionally, by casting a comparative glance at Becker’s systematisation of similar systems in Germany it proposes a set of organising principles that can guide no-fault schemes’ creation, maintenance and development.
Günther, Christian, Compensating Injuries Through the British Welfare State: Arriving at a Coherent System of No-Fault Compensation (December 12, 2023), Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy Research Paper No 2023-7.
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