Mental Distress in UK Law
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Johnson v Gore Wood & Company (A Firm)
... ... aided from an early stage of the litigation and now, because of his mental condition, was acting through a guardian ad litem. He appealed against the ... Johnson's claim for damages for mental distress and anxiety. This is a claim for general damages for "the mental distress ... ...
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Jarvis v Swans Tours Ltd
... ... been said that on a breach of contract damages cannot be given for mental distress. Thus in Hamblin v. G. V. R. 1 H. & N. at page 441, Chief Baron ... ...
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Farley v Skinner (No 2)
... ... , subjectivity and difficulties of proof involved in claims for mental distress flowing from breach of contract. IV. The law ... ...
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Watts v Morrow
... ... 87 for interest; and £8,000 (£4,000 for each plaintiff) for "distress and inconvenience" with interest of £477.81. At the trial liability was ... As a matter of policy, in his view, damages for mental distress in contract are limited to certain classes of case including ... ...
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Jackson v Horizon Holidays Ltd
... ... what was promised and what was obtained, but also damages for mental distress, inconvenience, upset, disappointment and frustration caused by ... ...
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Johnson v Unisys Ltd
... ... his dismissal and the circumstances leading up to it had caused his mental breakdown and inability to find work, with the result that he would suffer ... had been dismissed in brutal circumstances, damages for mental distress and loss of reputation and prestige ... 44 ... ...
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Heywood v Wellers
... ... only your back, but also damages for the disappointment, upset and mental distress which you suffered - see Jarvis v. Swan's Tours (1973) Q.B. 233 ... ...
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Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
... ... They did not care what distress they caused." It is true, and I have been constrained to say, that I would ... But that is not so where he has been caused mental distress or when his reputation has been attacked—where to use the ... ...
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Vento v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police (No.2)
... ... Subjective feelings of upset, frustration, worry, anxiety, mental distress, fear, grief, anguish, humiliation, unhappiness, stress, ... ...
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Dingle v Associated Newspapers Ltd
... ... untrue, must have done to the plaintiff, his anguish of mind and distress, and yet not a word of reinstatement or of regret nor an indication that ... that the parties were still in negotiation was merely part of his mental process in arriving at the proper damages for the libel. He gave a clear ... ...
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