Occupational Stress in UK Law
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Barber v Somerset County Council
... ... after the claimant had had to stop working for them owing to stress-induced psychiatric illness. Two of the claimants were teachers in ... 3 Occupational stress 7 ... ...
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Hatton v Sutherland; Barber v Somerset County Council
... ... of liability for an employee's psychiatric illness caused by stress at work. Two of the employees were teachers in public sector comprehensive ... has two components (a) an injury to health (as distinct from occupational stress) which (b) is attributable to stress at work (as distinct from ... ...
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Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority
... ... as they tried to do, that the appellant's dermatitis was "non-occupational". But the question remains whether a pursuer must necessarily fail ... , the Health Authority could not be held vicariously liable (and I stress the word vicariously ) for the acts of such a learner who has come up to ... ...
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City of York Council v P J Grosset
... ... ; his health suffered badly; and that in turn increased the level of stress, as he became worried not only about not coping at work but also that his ... claimant's health condition, agreed he should be referred to Occupational Health but did not accept the claimant's account of his workload and other ... ...
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Stokes v Guest, Keen and Nettlefold (Bolts and Nuts) Ltd
... ... organisation of the factory and who had special knowledge of occupational medicine and industrial hygiene. Since 1941 medical scientists had made ... They principally stress general cleanliness and frequent changing of working clothes. They do ... ...
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Donachie v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police
... ... put him in great fear, aggravated that hypertension causing extreme stress. As a result, on the medical evidence accepted by the Judge, he developed ... Hatton , a claim for occupational stress induced psychiatric injury that failed because there was no ... ...
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Hartman v South Essex Mental Health and Community Care NHS Trust
... ... involving claims for damages for psychiatric injury arising out of stress at work. Four are defendant's appeals; two are claimant's appeals. There ... has two components (a) an injury to health (as distinct from occupational stress) which (b) is attributable to stress at work (as distinct from ... ...
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Walker v Northumberland County Council
... ... Employment - employer's liability - stress at work - foreseeability and causation - ordinary principles apply - ... Occupational stress was not enough. 15 Where the harm had more than one cause, the ... ...
- Williams v The Bermuda Hospitals Board (Bermuda)
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Grieves v Everard and Sons and Another and associated claims
... ... with psychiatric injury caused by subjecting an employee to occupational stress, but the general principles are in my opinion applicable to ... ...
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