Workplace Stress in UK Law

  • White and Others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 03 December 1998
    ... ... post-traumatic stress disorder (P.T.S.D.), I need say no more on this subject ... 37 (2) ... of liability for pure psychiatric loss have suggested that "workplace claims loom large as the next growth area of psychiatric injury law", the ... ...
  • Barber v Somerset County Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 February 2002
    ... ... after the claimant had had to stop working for them owing to stress-induced psychiatric illness. Two of the claimants were teachers in ... Excessive workplace pressure and the stress to which it can lead can be harmful. They can ... ...
  • R v Ireland; R v Burstow
    • House of Lords
    • 24 July 1997
    ... ... subsequent decisions of the House of Lords regarding post-traumatic stress disorder in McLoughlin v. O'Brian [1983] 1 A.C. 410 , 418, per Lord ... ...
  • Eastwood v Magnox Electric Plc
    • House of Lords
    • 15 July 2004
  • Marion Mervyn v BW Controls Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 March 2020
    ... ... “On 14 November 2016 I had to walk out of my workplace due to stress. I have been working at BW Controls for 11 years. Lee Fowler ... ...
  • Solicitors Regulation Authority v Sovani Ramona James
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 13 November 2018
    ... ... such as “terrified” and “fear” in the context of the workplace. The use of those words gave an indication of the Respondent's ... The hair loss was a recognised complication of that stress-related condition ... 11 So far as relevant to the issues before ... ...
  • Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Trust
    • House of Lords
    • 12 July 2006
    ... ... The Act was not aimed at the workplace. It is a public order provision designed to punish perpetrators for the ... would increase very considerably the volume of claims based on stress, anxiety or other emotional problems at work. The courts would be unable ... ...
  • Veakins v Kier Islington Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 02 December 2009
    ... ... over a wages problem, of a kind which is perfectly common in the workplace, leading to a possibly embarrassing 'telling-off' (that was Miss Veakins ... for an employee to succeed in a negligence action based on stress at work. It seems that this may be causing more employees to seek redress ... ...
  • R v Ministry of Defence, ex parte Smith
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 November 1995
    ... ... a group of people required to live and work sometimes under great stress and physically at very close quarters, and thus damage its cohesion and ... risk that homosexuals might be the subject of harassment in the workplace on grounds of sexual orientation, which was recognised to undermine the ... ...
  • Vento v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police (No.2)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 December 2002
    ... ... to damages for both psychiatric damage generally and post-traumatic stress disorder. We find that, in either category, this case falls within the ... continuing social changes affecting women in society and in the workplace are reflected in the adjustments now being made to working conditions in ... ...
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