Physical Health in UK Law

  • City of York Council v P J Grosset
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 May 2018
    ... ... He became very stressed under this increased pressure of work; his health suffered badly; and that in turn increased the level of stress, as he ... to spend up to three hours a day in a punishing regime of physical exercise to clear his lungs. That severely restricted the time and energy ... ...
  • Cameron Mathieson, a deceased child (by his father Craig Mathieson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
    • Supreme Court
    • 08 July 2015
    ... ... normally performs for himself and which involve a high degree of physical intimacy; and Lord Hope of Craighead, at p 821, offered examples, namely ... "All in-patients' disability-related needs are met by the national health service. That is where the rule against overlapping provision comes in, ... ...
  • Griffiths v The Secretary of State and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 December 2015
    ... ... also requested that the appellant be referred to the Occupational Health Service to establish whether the condition from which she was suffering ... … (4) The second requirement is a requirement, where a physical feature puts a disabled person at a substantial disadvantage in relation ... ...
  • R (MA and Others) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
    • Supreme Court
    • 09 November 2016
    ... ... the meaning of the Equality Act (which covers anyone who has a physical or mental impairment that has a more than minimal long term effect on the ... He has significant mental health problems including obsessive compulsive disorder. He does not sleep in any ... ...
  • Chief Adjudication Officer v Foster
    • House of Lords
    • 28 January 1993
    ... ... as solely referrable to the nature and degree of a person's physical or mental disability. Thus the Secretary of State may specify ... ...
  • R (Burke) v General Medical Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 July 2005
    ... ... ' Conference of England and Wales The Secretary of State for Health Patient Concern Medical Ethics Alliance Alert British Section for ... He was diagnosed in 1982. He suffers very serious physical disabilities but has retained his mental competence and capacity. He has ... ...
  • R (Bernard and Another) v Enfield Borough Council
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 25 October 2002
    ... ... The second claimant's health had deteriorated slightly and she was still suffering from incontinence ... as the nature and context of the treatment, its duration, its physical and mental effects and, in some instances, the sex, age and state of ... ...
  • Re B (Adult: Refusal of Treatment)
    • Family Division
    • 22 March 2002
    ... ... Thereafter Ms B was in generally good health although she had some continued weakness in her left arm ... possibly go quietly psychotic, quite frankly, apart from the physical discomfort. That just terrified me, the prospect of dying like that, ... ...
  • Sheffield CC v S
    • Family Division
    • 05 November 2002
    ... ... abnormality he has both severe learning disabilities and some physical disabilities. Although he is generally healthy he appears particularly ... had occasion to analyse and describe at some length in A v A Health Authority, In re J (A Child), R (S) v Secretary of State for the Home ... ...
  • R MA & Others v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Equality and Human Rights Commission (Intervener)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 February 2014
    ... ... caring full-time for a disabled person/someone with a long-term health condition and the employment and support allowance support group which ... suitable accommodation and the probable need for substantial physical alterations to be made to the property in order to adapt it to the ... ...
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