Many thanks to everyone who attended our recent webinar,”Schedules/counter schedules” by Rukan Hazar. We hope you found the talk useful and informative.
The presentation covered the definition, content, form, and functions of schedules of loss in personal injury claims, emphasising their importance as living documents that must be user-friendly for judges and clearly quantify both past and future financial losses. Rukan shared practical tips about proper drafting, including the need for calculations and explanations, and discussed the requirements for serving schedules under pre-action protocols. The webinar also covered counter schedules, which serve as the defendant’s response to claimant schedules, and included discussion of relevant case law including Wright and Satellite Information Services Limited and HD and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, which highlighted the importance of properly drafted schedules and the potential cost consequences of deficiencies in documentation.
If you would like to review the webinar again, you can find the slides here (please email Chelsey Stuart if you would like to reuse the slides for your own purposes).
Having completed pupillage and accepted tenancy in April 2025, Rukan Hazar accepts instructions in the following areas:
- Family: Private Children Law, Public Children Law, Family Law Act applications, and Matrimonial Finance;
- Civil: Breach of Contract, Commercial Disputes, Property Law (including possession hearings), Personal Injury, Claims under Consumer Credit Act 1974, Employment Law, Credit Hire, Debt Recovery, Personal and Corporate Insolvency (including bankruptcy petitions, winding-up petitions, applications to set-aside statutory demands), CCMCs, Interlocutory Applications, and Infant Settlement Hearings;
- Crime: Prosecutes (Grade 1) and defends in the Crown Court and Magistrates’ Court.
Before joining Chambers, Rukan worked as a paralegal in the legal department of the National Crime Agency where she assisted on cases involving recovery of proceeds of crime under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. She also appeared before District Judges as a county court advocate across London and the Southeastern Circuit in possession matters. Prior to this, Rukan worked as a legal assistant to the Head of Chambers at a London set, gaining experience in health and safety, environmental, and regulatory matters.
During her Bar studies, she provided pro bono advice and representation in social security appeals before the First Tier Tribunal as well as private children law at East London Family Court.
