The ET Presidents of England & Wales and Scotland are consulting on uprating the awards for injury to feelings following a ruling in the Court of Appeal that there should be a general 10% uplift. The Vento bands for injury to feelings awards need to be uplifted following the Court of Appeal’s decision in De Souza v Vinci Construction (UK) Ltd that a general 10% should apply to ET awards of compensation for injury to feelings. The consultation proposes that the Retail Prices Index (RPI) continues to be used as the inflation rate calculator, which, with the 10% uplift included in the recalculation of the bands from 2002, when they were originally set, means that the proposed new bands are: lower £1,000 to £8,000; middle £8,000 to £25,000; and upper £25,000 to £42,000.

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