Psychiatry Injury in UK Law
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R v Ireland; R v Burstow
... ... 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 ... Psychiatry is and will always remain an imperfectly understood branch of medical ... ...
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King v Bristow Helicopters Ltd Re M
... ... article 17 of the Warsaw Convention is an antithesis between bodily injury and mental injury, the latter being outside the scope of article 17. I can ... , there is the undoubted fact that medical science generally and psychiatry in particular have advanced since 1929. While it is a matter for expert ... ...
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McLoughlin v O'Brian
... ... of care to the appellant because the possibility of her suffering injury by nervous shock, in the circumstances, was not reasonably foreseeable ... For too long earlier generations of judges have regarded psychiatry and psychiatrists with suspicion, if not hostility. Now, I venture to ... ...
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R v Turner (Terence)
... ... of the defence of "provocation"; and when death or serious injury results, profound grief usually follows. Jurors do not need psychiatrists ... to opinion evidence; but we are firmly of the opinion that psychiatry has not yet become a satisfactory substitute for the commonsense of juries ... ...
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McLoughlin v Jones and Others
... ... issue that the claimant's claim for damages for personal injury being psychiatric illness suffered by the claimant should be struck out ... For too long earlier generations of judges have regarded psychiatry and psychiatrists with suspicion, if not hostility. Now, I venture to ... ...
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Key and Another v Key and Others
... ... 2000, as well as being, at various times, Clinical Tutor in Psychiatry, Clinical Director and Medical Director, to the Norfolk Mental Healthcare ... The mental shock of witnessing an injury to a loved one is an example recognised by the law, and the affective ... ...
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BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd v Konczak
... ... were for discrimination, the door was opened to compensation for injury to feelings and psychiatric injury, together with pecuniary loss ... Psychiatry does not lend itself to the kind of statistical analysis which orthopaedic ... ...
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R v Erskine; R v Williams
... ... explained that it was sufficient if he intended that really serious injury should be caused. Subsequently, as counsel described the matter in open ... di Lustro, a senior registrar in forensic psychiatry. Her report is dated 10 September 1999. Apart from her interviews with the ... ...
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Brown v The State
... ... Dr Latham is a consultant in forensic psychiatry, working in the National Health Service in London. He is a member of the ... In the absence of any history of a traumatic head injury, Dr Green considered that the appellant's long term abuse of narcotic ... ...
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Re B. (A Minor) (Wardship: Sterilisation)
... ... circumstances of uncomprehending fear and pain and risk of physical injury. In such a case the judge is under a duty and had the courage to authorise ... Berney who is a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry, and Mr. Barron, a consultant of obstetrics and gynaecology to the ... ...
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