Petch v Commissioners of Customs and Excise

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1993
Year1993
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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23 cases
  • Waters v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 27 July 2000
    ...by her colleagues that she came to the verge of a nervous breakdown and had to resign". 12 and Petch v. Customs & Excise Commissioners [1993] I.C.R. 789 at 795C. This can be the position whether the foreseeable harm is caused to the mind or to the body of the employee Mount Isa Mines v. Pus......
  • Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Trust
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 March 2005
    ...was so bullied and belittled by her colleagues that she came to the verge of a nervous breakdown and had to resign" and Petch v. Customs and Excise Commissioners [1993] I.C.R. 789, 795. This can be the position whether the foreseeable harm is caused to the mind or to the body of the employ......
  • Marie Flora Mcdonald Or Cross And Another V. Highlands And Islands Enterprise And Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 5 December 2000
    ...difficult evidential problems of foreseeability and causation. Miss O'Brien also referred to Petch v Customs and Excise Commissioners [1993] ICR 789, in which the existence of a duty to take care that an employee's mental health was not harmed by his working conditions was conceded, but the......
  • A B and Others v Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 26 March 2004
    ...care towards a victim whose identity is known in advance, for example, the solicitors clients in Cook v S … or the employers in cases of Petch, Walker and Garrett, and in all the cases before us. (4) Contractual claims by secondary victims: where the harm is suffered as a result of harm to ......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Employers' Liability at Common Law: Two Competing Paradigms
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh Law Review No. , May 2008
    • 1 May 2008
    ...injury was reasonably foreseeable, the employer had taken reasonable care to prevent it,7070See Petch v Customs and Excise Commissioners [1993] ICR 789; Cross v Highlands and Islands Enterprise2001 SLT 1060. demonstrates the effectiveness of these In contrast to the approach to liability fo......
  • Liability for Work Stress: Kohler Ten Years On
    • Australia
    • University of Western Australia Law Review No. 39-2, September 2015
    • 1 September 2015
    ...to perform. It is clear law that an employer has a duty to provide his employee with a reasonably safe system of work and to take 18[1993] ICR 789. 2015 Liability for Work Stress: Koehler Ten Years On 155 reasonable steps to protect him from risks which are reasonably foreseeable. Whereas t......
  • NEGLIGENCE LIABILITY TO PRIMARY VICTIMS OF PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1996, December 1996
    • 1 December 1996
    ...CLR 383 at 413—4. 27 Neill v NSW Fresh Food and Ice Ltd (1963) 108 CLR 362, per Taylor and Owen JJ at 370. 28 [1991] 2 All ER 293, CA. 29 [1993] ICR 789. 30 [1995] 1 All ER 737. 31 [1951] 1 All ER 1078 at 1081. 32 [1991] 1 All ER 293. 33 Supra Note 13 at 759. 34 [1993] 3 SLR 317. 35 Per Lor......

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