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• Legal Regulation and Practice of the Non-Material Indemnification and Rehabilitation in the United Kingdom

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  Éva Fazekas

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  The article analyzes the specialties of the English legal system with a focus on the legal regulation and court practice of tort law, and especially the non material indemnification and rehabilitation of the bodily injured. The study starts with the description of the main characteristics of the tort law, the definition and jurisprudence of non material damages, like pain and suffering and loss of amenity and psychological damages are also reviewed in detail with respective court cases. The study also gives an analysis of the connection between tort law and insurance law, how one effects the other. Nowadays the indemnification process of the bodily injured cannot be full without rehabilitation. Like in most of the Western European countries, in the United Kingdom the rehabilitation process is a complex and centrally managed procedure with the help of state institutions and programs.