High Court: Law on payments for catastrophically injured 'a dead letter' unless they take carers' wage inflation into account

A law aimed at meeting the lifetime care needs of catastrophically injured plaintiffs is "regrettably a dead letter" in its current form, a High Court judge has found.

Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy said, because of "weighty" evidence that the linking of payments in the 2017 law to the index of consumer prices (HCIP) means such plaintiffs will be undercompensated, no judge could approve payments linked to that index.