Causing Psychiatric and Emotional Harm : Reshaping the Boundaries of Legal Liability
Harvey. Teff
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Oxford : : Hart Publishing Limited, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (228 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Prelims; 1 Psychiatric Harm, Emotional Suffering and Legal Redress; 2 The Development of Redress for Emotional Harm and Nervous Shock; 3 Contemporary Provision for' Accident-Based' Psychiatric Illness; 4 Liability for Psychiatric Harm 'Beyond the Mainstream'; 5 Policy Concerns; 6 A Proposal for Reform; Bibliography; Index. - Though mental harm can be profoundly disabling, the law imposes strict limits on who can recover damages for it. In the absence of physical injury, compensation is not normally available for negligently caused mental suffering, however severe, unless it constitutes a 'recognisable psychiatric illness'. Claimants whose mental trauma stems from injury caused to someone else are subject to arbitrary restrictive liability rules that dispense with established legal principles and cannot be reconciled with scientific advances. The book traces the history of civil liability for mental harm up to the
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| Emner | Negligence
Damages. Liability for emotional distress. Negligence -- Law and legislation. Vis mer... Personal injuries.
Law, General & Comparative Law, Politics & Government juridisk ansvar injurier psykisk syke emosjonelle forstyrrleser |
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| ISBN | 9781841132167
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