| Description |
xxvii, 218 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 4.̀Pure' psychiatric injury with no physical injury and no shocking event -- 5.Rescuers -- 6.Other ̀involuntary participants' -- 7.̀Primary victims' in ̀shock cases' -- 3.Primary victims of negligence: non-shock cases -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Employer's liability: stress at work -- A.Breach of duty -- 3.Non-employer's liability -- 4.Secondary victims of negligence -- 1.Secondary victims -- 2.The Hillsborough disaster -- 3.̀Secondary victims' -- 4.Reasonable foreseeability -- A.̀Normal phlegm' -- B.̀Eggshell personality' -- C.̀Hindsight' -- D.The requirement for ̀shock' -- E.Close ties of love and affection -- F.Proximity in time and space -- G.Means by which events are perceived -- 5.Excluded categories of secondary victim -- A.Self-harm by defendant -- B.Recipients of news -- 6.What did the Law Commission propose and was it necessary? -- 7.Subsequent case law -- A.Interpretation of proximity -- B.Sudden, shocking event -- |
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Contents note continued: 6.The illness -- 1.Recognised psychiatric conditions, and diagnosis -- 2.Types of injury -- A.Post-traumatic stress disorder -- B.Anxieties and phobias -- C.Depression -- D.Adjustment disorders -- E.Somatisation and somatoform disorders -- F.Chronic pain -- G.Exacerbation of existing conditions (eg psychosis or bipolar disorder) -- H.Psychotic disorders -- I.Alcohol and substance misuse problems -- 3.Head injuries---overlap with structural brain injury -- 4.Whiplash etc---overlap with physical injury -- 5.Pre-existing vulnerability -- 6.Psychiatric treatments -- 7.Children -- 8.Psychiatric experts -- A.Psychiatrists and psychologists -- B.Psychometric tests -- C.Understanding medical notes and reports -- D.Miscellaneous difficulties with obtaining a psychiatric report -- 7.Compensation -- 1.Background -- 2.General damages: pain, suffering and loss of amenity (PSLA) -- A.General psychiatric damage -- B.Post-traumatic stress disorder -- |
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Contents note continued: A.Case management outside of the Rehabilitation Code -- B.Psychiatric rehabilitation facilities -- C.Counselling and general psychiatric outpatient sessions -- D.In-patient psychiatric care -- 7.Attitudes of defendants: malingering, fraud and exaggeration -- A.Malingering -- B.How to detect malingering, fraud and exaggeration -- 8.Costs and retainer issues -- 9.The Mental Capacity Act 2005 -- 1.Historical perspective -- 2.The new legislation -- 3.The Court of Protection -- 4.The principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 -- A.Presumption of capacity -- B.Practical steps to help P make the decision for himself -- C.Unwise decisions -- D.Best interests -- E.Least restrictive option -- 5.People who lack capacity -- 6.Inability to make a decision -- A.̀To understand the information relevant to the decision' -- B.̀To retain that information' -- C.̀To use or weigh that information as part of the process of making the decision' -- |
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Contents note continued: C.Means of perception: broadcasters -- D.Liability of primary victims to secondary victims -- 8.Secondary victims---a summary -- A.Distinction between primary and secondary victims -- B.Reasonable foreseeability -- C.Controls -- D.The future -- 5.Intentional acts and other liability -- 1.Assault and battery -- A.Battery -- B.Assault -- C.Intentional infliction of harm -- D.Criminal injures -- E.Contract -- 2.Statutory harassment -- A.Potential defendants -- B.Meaning of harassment -- C.Harassment outside the workplace -- D.Checklist for harassment claims under the PHA 1997 -- 3.Statutory discrimination -- A.Protected characteristics -- B.Disability and psychiatric injury -- C.Direct discrimination -- D.Indirect discrimination -- E.Discrimination arising from a disability -- F.Perceived and association discrimination -- G.Practical considerations in a disability discrimination claim -- H.Damages generally -- I.Injury to feelings -- J.Psychiatric injury -- |
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Contents note continued: C.Problematic medical/psychological conditions -- 3.CICA and the tariff scheme -- 4.Special damages -- A.Case managers/carers/buddies -- B.Short-term treatment interventions -- 5.Practical effect on financial loss claims -- Mitigation -- 6.Provisional damages -- 7.Causation of damage: material contribution, apportionment and acceleration -- A.Material contribution -- B.Apportionment -- C.Acceleration -- D.Summary of causation of damage issues in psychiatric injury claims -- 8.Practical steps -- 1.Instructions: identifying potential psychiatric injury -- 2.Reviewing past medical history -- What records -- 3.Building a team -- A.Counsel -- B.The client and their family as part of the team -- C.Legal expense insurers -- 4.Choosing and instructing experts -- A.Which expert -- 5.Handling the client -- A.Difficult clients -- B.Capacity -- C.Mental Capacity Act -- D.Coming off the record -- 6.Rehabilitation -- |
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Contents note continued: D.̀To communicate his decision (whether by talking, using sign language or any other means' -- 7.Passing the test for incapacity -- 8.Best interests checklist -- 9.Children who lack capacity -- 10.Acts in connection with care or treatment -- A.Powers of the court -- B.Litigation capacity -- 11.Managing property and affairs -- 12.Making an application to the Court of Protection -- A.Application for property and affairs deputyship -- B.Application for personal welfare deputyship -- C.Personal welfare decisions -- D.Contested applications -- 13.Costs -- 10.The future -- 1.The Law Commission report -- 2.The Australian experience -- 3.The insurers -- 4.Alternatives proposed for the United Kingdom -- 5.Possible future developments -- A.̀Recognised psychiatric injury' -- B.The Page v Smith controversy -- C.Rescuers -- D.The requirement of foreseeability of psychiatric injury in stress at work cases -- |
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Contents note continued: E.Secondary victims' proximity: close ties of love and affection -- F.Secondary victims' proximity: ̀shock' and space and time -- G.Secondary victims' proximity: means of perception -- H.Divisible/indivisible injury -- 6.Conclusion |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Liability and compensation for psychiatric injury: an overview -- 1.What is psychiatric injury? -- 2.A brief history -- 3.Why is psychiatric injury so controversial? -- 4.Causes of action -- A.Negligence -- B.Claims in contract -- C.Claims for psychiatric injury from other torts -- D.Criminal Injuries Compensation -- 5.Summary -- 2.Primary victims of negligence: shock cases -- 1.Primary victims -- 2.Direct participants in events which also cause or risk physical injury to the victim -- A.Psychiatric injury associated with significant physical injury -- B.Soft-tissue injury and depression -- C.Brain injury and ̀personality change' -- D.Serious psychiatric injury associated with minor physical injury -- E.Delayed onset of severe psychiatric injury accompanying physical injury -- 3.̀Pure' psychiatric injury arising from an accident where physical injury to the claimant was foreseeable -- |
| Analysis |
Psychiatric injuries |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Forensic psychiatry -- Great Britain.
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Liability for emotional distress -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Azib, Rehana.
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Kennedy, Jenny, 1956-
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Marshall, David, 1962-
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| LC no. |
2012406036 |
| ISBN |
1845921135 |
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9781845921132 |
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