Egg Shell Skull in UK Law
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THE DEMISE OF THE THIN SKULL RULE?
... ... thought that there was “no difference in principle between an egg shell skull and an egg shell ‘personality” and allowed recovery for the increased injury. However, a defendant need not ... ...
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Ex parte Choudhury — An Opportunity Missed
... ... their feelings hurt and thus we adopt a tortious ‘egg-shell skull’ type rule towards them? Baron Alderson seemed to bc ... ...
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The Insurance Ombudsman and payment protection insurance
Personal general insurance policies are not subject to statutory regulation. There is instead a system of voluntary self‐regulation and the question arises as to the effectiveness of this regime. T...... ... On the 'egg shell skull' argument in negli-gence, insurers must take their policy-holders as ... ...
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Nervous Shock and Alcock: The Judicial Buck Stops Here
... ... Since the egg-shell skull rule has now been applied to such cases (see Brice v ... ...
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A Re‐Examination of Remoteness
... ... The forcseeability test will not explain the “ egg-shell ” skull cases concerning thc tort of negligence itself ... ...
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THE EMPLOYMENT AND SAFETY EFFECTS OF EMPLOYERS‘ LIABILITY*
... ... An example of this is the so-called “egg shell” skull cases where otherwise normal persons sustain severe ... ...
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NOTES OF CASES
... ... extent of damage, but with the survival of the thin-skull rule the desire to compensate accident victims has overriden ... content to treat the case as an example of the egg- shell skull rule, for ‘‘ it is perfectly permissible in the ... ...
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FORESIGHT AND REMOTENESS OF DAMAGE IN NEGLIGENCE
... ... unlikely, in the fbst place, to affect the swelled “ egg-shell skull ” rule, under which a tortfeasor must take his ... ...
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Reforming Liability for Psychiatric Injury in Scotland: A Recipe for Uncertainty?
It is widely acknowledged that the common law rules governing liability for psychiatric injury in the United Kingdom are in an unsatisfactory state. The Scottish Law Commission has now published a ...... ... , 24 and may have been ba sed upon a misunderstan di ng of the egg shell-skull rule ... 25 Meanwhile , leading academic com mentato rs have describ ... ...
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COMPENSATION VERSUS PUNISHMENT IN DAMAGES AWARDS
... ... a man with an iron consti- tution rather than an egg-shell skull, a well-dressed pauper rather than a shabby ... ...
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