The Law Reform (Personal Injuries) Act 1948 is an Act of the

Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...

. It was passed during the Labour

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...

Clement Attlee Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 18838 October 1967) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was Deputy Prime Mini ...

. It improved the legal position of employees suffering from work-related accidents. In particular, it abolished the doctrine of

common employment Common employment was an historical defence in English tort law that said workers implicitly undertook the risks of being injured by their co-workers, with whom they were in "common employment". The US labor law terminology was the "fellow servant ...

and repealed the Employers’ Liability Act, 1880.UK Legislation
Law Reform (Personal Injuries) Act 1948
accessed 3 February 2021

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{{UK legislation United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1948 Personal injury Law reform in the United Kingdom