Birth injuries and the "lost years"

CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2023] EWHC 1770 (KB)

Young children are usually unsuccessful in claiming damages for the lost years, because it can be very difficult for a court to quantify such claims, since it is almost always impossible to know how much the child might have potentially earned. In a recent case, permission has been given, at the request of the claimant's lawyers, for a leapfrog appeal to the Supreme Court on a point of law of general public importance concerning the issue of lost years' claim for an eight-year-old girl who had sustained serious injuries at or around the time of her birth.