Can “reasonable adjustments” change the way loss is assessed in personal injury cases?

Writing in the Scots Law Times in 2000, Keith Carter examined the then relatively new Disability Discrimination Act and an important tension for personal injury claims: whether greater protection at work, retraining or redeployment could affect assumptions about future employability and loss of earnings. More than two decades later, the underlying question (namely, how disability, workplace adjustment and real employment prospects interact when assessing financial loss) remains highly relevant.