COVID-19 vaccines and national and COVAX no-fault compensation programmes

In this episode, Professor Duncan Fairgrieve and Dr Stephen Minas discuss the global challenge of COVID-19 vaccination, the importance of public confidence in vaccines and the relationship between vaccine take-up and no-fault compensation schemes which assist the small minority of people who suffer serious adverse effects. Compensation schemes have been introduced in various countries and also under the international COVAX Facility, offering alternatives to litigation. Dr Fairgrieve is Professor of Comparative Law at Université Paris-Dauphine and Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Law and Director of the Product Liability Forum at the British Institute of International & Comparative Law (BIICL).