31.   Unpublished figures compiled as part of research by the Department of the Environment reveal that acid rain is causing more extensive damage in Britain than previous estimates had suggested.

32.   It warns that pollutants in the water may be causing insidious neurological damage in children, and infertility in adults.

33.   This would also serve to separate the lines of responsibility if claims for damages in negligence should subsequently arise.

34.   Since risk does not pass till delivery, in most cases, then any damage in transit will automatically be for the account of the seller.

35.   Everybody accepts that awards of damages in this field are necessarily conventional, and that they are based on a scale of comparative seriousness which is also conventional.

36.   That principle is the guiding principle in the assessment of damages in personal injuries cases.

37.   Some, although few, home contents policies have a reverse indemnity clause which may cover costs and damages in some cases.

38.   Damages in libel actions are difficult to predict.

39.   There is urgent need to reform the law relating to damages in libel actions.

40.   The alarming escalation of damages in recent cases is best explained as the response of ordinary people to falling standards in the popular press.