Causing Psychiatric and Emotional Harm : Reshaping the Boundaries of Legal Liability.
Teff, Harvey.
Causing Psychiatric and Emotional Harm : Reshaping the Boundaries of Legal Liability. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (228 pages)
Prelims -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- 1 Psychiatric Harm, Emotional Suffering and Legal Redress -- Categorising Personal Harm -- Underlying Hostility: Disparaging Intangible Harm and its Redress -- Embracing Liability for Mental and Emotional Harm -- Some Criminal Law Comparisons -- Caveat and Conclusion -- 2 The Development of Redress for Emotional Harm and Nervous Shock -- 'Harm' at Common Law -- Development of Liability for 'Mental and Nervous Shock': The 'First Hundred Years' -- An Overview of the Period -- 3 Contemporary Provision for' Accident-Based' Psychiatric Illness -- McLoughlin v O'Brian: Policy or Principle? -- The 1990s: from Alcock to Page to White- 'Thus Far And No Further'? -- Page v Smith and White v Chief Constable Of South Yorkshire: the 'Patchwork Quilt' Embedded -- Primary/Secondary/Both/Neither? -- The Mixed Messages of Page v Smith -- Hillsborough Revisited -- 4 Liability for Psychiatric Harm 'Beyond the Mainstream' -- Introduction -- Negligent Provision of Services -- Communicating Bad News -- Medical Negligence: the Declining Significance of the 'Sudden Shock' of a 'Horrifying Event' -- Negligence Causing Psychological Detriment -- The Doctrinal Basis for Exceptions to the Special Rule Structure -- An Australian Exemplar: Tame v New South Wales -- Annetts v Australian Stations Pty Ltd -- Conclusions -- 5 Policy Concerns -- Some Common Policy Justifications for Special Controls -- 6 A Proposal for Reform -- A New Test for Remediable Suffering -- The Proposed Framework in Outline -- Remaining Barriers to Reform -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book traces the history of civil liability for mental harm and offers a new legal framework.
9781847314789
Personal injuries.
Liability for emotional distress.
Negligence -- Law and legislation.
Damages.
Electronic books.
K925.T44 2009
346.420323
Causing Psychiatric and Emotional Harm : Reshaping the Boundaries of Legal Liability. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (228 pages)
Prelims -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- 1 Psychiatric Harm, Emotional Suffering and Legal Redress -- Categorising Personal Harm -- Underlying Hostility: Disparaging Intangible Harm and its Redress -- Embracing Liability for Mental and Emotional Harm -- Some Criminal Law Comparisons -- Caveat and Conclusion -- 2 The Development of Redress for Emotional Harm and Nervous Shock -- 'Harm' at Common Law -- Development of Liability for 'Mental and Nervous Shock': The 'First Hundred Years' -- An Overview of the Period -- 3 Contemporary Provision for' Accident-Based' Psychiatric Illness -- McLoughlin v O'Brian: Policy or Principle? -- The 1990s: from Alcock to Page to White- 'Thus Far And No Further'? -- Page v Smith and White v Chief Constable Of South Yorkshire: the 'Patchwork Quilt' Embedded -- Primary/Secondary/Both/Neither? -- The Mixed Messages of Page v Smith -- Hillsborough Revisited -- 4 Liability for Psychiatric Harm 'Beyond the Mainstream' -- Introduction -- Negligent Provision of Services -- Communicating Bad News -- Medical Negligence: the Declining Significance of the 'Sudden Shock' of a 'Horrifying Event' -- Negligence Causing Psychological Detriment -- The Doctrinal Basis for Exceptions to the Special Rule Structure -- An Australian Exemplar: Tame v New South Wales -- Annetts v Australian Stations Pty Ltd -- Conclusions -- 5 Policy Concerns -- Some Common Policy Justifications for Special Controls -- 6 A Proposal for Reform -- A New Test for Remediable Suffering -- The Proposed Framework in Outline -- Remaining Barriers to Reform -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book traces the history of civil liability for mental harm and offers a new legal framework.
9781847314789
Personal injuries.
Liability for emotional distress.
Negligence -- Law and legislation.
Damages.
Electronic books.
K925.T44 2009
346.420323