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Compensation under defendant’s national law

A ruling that the Dutch widow of a man, killed on a trawler owned by an English company, receive damages in full – rather than minus state and other benefits as under Dutch law – reaffirms that damages should be calculated under the legal rules of the country in which suit is brought.

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