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Causing Psychiatric and Emotional Harm : Reshaping the Boundaries of Legal Liability.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2009Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (228 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847314789
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Causing Psychiatric and Emotional HarmDDC classification:
  • 346.420323
LOC classification:
  • K925.T44 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: This book traces the history of civil liability for mental harm and offers a new legal framework.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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