Psychiatric Injury in UK Law
- Turbulent Times Psychiatric Injury In Aviation Claims
- Damages for Psychiatric Injury - the Approach Under the Discrimination Statutes
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UK High Court gives useful recap on liability for stress-induced psychiatric illness in the workplace (Part 3)
In the first two parts of this series (part 1, part 2) we looked at how the Courts still regard the 2002 judgment in Hatton –v- Sutherland as the definitive statement on the law for liability for s...
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Stress at Work: An Employer's Liability?
In Easton v B&Q Plc [2015] EWHC 880, the High Court considered whether an employer was liable for an employee’s psychiatric injury caused by work-related stress. Easton had been a high perform...... ... considered whether an employer was liable for an employee’s psychiatric injury caused by work-related stress ... Easton had been a high ... ...
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High Court Ruling Clarifies Scope Of Maternal Psychiatric Claims
... ... In the case of YAH, the defendant Trust had admitted liability for the baby's brain injury due to negligent obstetric care. The issues before the Court were whether the mother was a primary or secondary victim, and depending on that, ... ...
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Stress Claims - Employers' Liability for Psychiatric Illness
... ... However, in recent years growing numbers of employees have brought claims in respect of psychiatric injury arising from occupational stress. A recent decision of the Court of Appeal, Chairman of the Governors of St. Thomas Becket RC High School -v- Hatton ... ...
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Secondary Victims Paul & Others v The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
...The Claimants (both minors) sought damages for psychiatric injury caused after witnessing the death of their father. Mr Paul had Type ... ...
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Secondary Victim Claims: Paul V Royal Wolverhampton NHST
...A secondary victim is one who suffers psychiatric injury not by ... being directly involved in the incident but by ... ...
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Defendants Successful In Secondary Victim Appeals
... ... In all three appeals, the Claimants had suffered psychiatric ... injury after witnessing the death of a close relative due to ... ...
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Defendants Successful In Secondary Victim Appeals
... ... In all three appeals, the Claimants had suffered psychiatric ... injury after witnessing the death of a close relative due to ... ...
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