Psychiatric Injury in UK Law

  • White and Others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 03 December 1998
    ... ... that trace the development of the common law's attitude to psychiatric injury. They show that the common law has regarded claims for psychiatric ... ...
  • Page v Smith
    • House of Lords
    • 11 May 1995
    ... ... A collision occurred. The plaintiff sustained no bodily injury. Neither did the defendant or his wife and child who were with him in his ... and horrifying impact, resulting in some recognisable psychiatric illness. There must be some serious mental disturbance outside the range ... ...
  • R v Ireland; R v Burstow
    • House of Lords
    • 24 July 1997
    ... ... , what else would she be terrified about? The victim may suffer psychiatric illness such as anxiety neurosis or acute depression. Harassment of women ... to deal with persistent offenders who cause serious psychiatric injury to victims. Section 4(1) of the Act of 1997 which creates the offence of ... ...
  • Alcock and Others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police
    • House of Lords
    • 28 November 1991
    ... ... the plaintiffs claim damages for nervous shock resulting in psychiatric illness which they allege was caused by the experiences inflicted on them ... in the present case that reasonable foreseeability of the risk of injury to them in the particular form of psychiatric illness was all that was ... ...
  • Barber v Somerset County Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 February 2002
    ... ... had had to stop working for them owing to stress-induced psychiatric illness. Two of the claimants were teachers in comprehensive schools, the ... argue that the same principles that apply to liability for physical injury should be applied to liability for psychiatric illness, and there is no ... ...
  • KR and Others v Bryn Alyn Community (Holdings) Ltd ((in Liquidation)) and another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 February 2003
    ... ... The claims were primarily for long-term psychiatric or psychological injury ... 2 On 26 th June 2001, Connell J ... ...
  • Vento v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police (No.2)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 December 2002
    ... ... appropriate level of compensation for non-pecuniary loss, such as injury to feelings, and, in particular, how should the problem of double recovery ... to feelings be approached, if awards of compensation for psychiatric injury and aggravated damages are also made? ... 2 ... ...
  • Johnson v Unisys Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 22 March 2001
    ... ... were awarded for financial loss of employment prospects or for injury to reputation resulting from a breach of contract: see pp 921-924 ... and the fact of his dismissal the [employee] suffered a major psychiatric illness, involving, inter alia, in-patient treatment from March to August ... ...
  • Wainwright v Home Office
    • House of Lords
    • 16 October 2003
    ... ... Wainwright had suffered emotional distress but no recognised psychiatric illness ... 5 Mrs Wainwright and Alan ... which he relied the claimant had suffered a recognised psychiatric injury. Mrs Wainwright had not. It seemed to him illogical to deny her a remedy ... ...
  • D v East Berkshire Community NHS Trust and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 21 April 2005
    ... ... made the false and negligent statement, if the suffering of psychiatric injury by the parent was a foreseeable result of making it and such injury ... ...
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