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Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims [Minkštas viršelis]

(Managing Partner, Anthony Gold, UK.), (Barrister, 2 Temple Gardens, UK.), (Partner, Anthony Gold, UK.)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 246 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 409 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 31-Jan-2012
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Professional
  • ISBN-10: 1845921135
  • ISBN-13: 9781845921132
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 246 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 409 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 31-Jan-2012
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Professional
  • ISBN-10: 1845921135
  • ISBN-13: 9781845921132
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Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims provides practitioners with an essential guide to handling the complex legal and practical issues arising from psychiatric injury. The authors are the highly experienced solicitors David Marshall and Jenny Kennedy, from specialist London firm Anthony Gold, and barrister Rehana Azib, from leading chambers 2 Temple Gardens. Specialist chapters have also been contributed by Dr Martin Baggeley on the medical aspects and District Judge Elizabeth Batten on mental capacity.

The book provides practitioners with a practical guide to dealing with the complex legal issues arising from psychiatric injury. It deals with the development of law and practice over the last ten years, particularly in the area of stress at work and the growing role of rehabilitation. It provides a clear guide to the complexities of establishing liability, as well as practical assistance in running psychiatric claims.

Contents includes: Liability and compensation for psychiatric injury: an overview; Primary victims of negligence: shock cases; Primary victims of negligence: non-shock cases; Secondary victims of negligence; Intentional acts and other liability; The illness; Capacity; Compensation; Practical steps; Appendices.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Personal Injury Law online service.

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Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims provides practitioners with an essential guide to handling the complex legal and practical issues arising from psychiatric injury.
Foreword v
Preface vii
About the Authors ix
Table of Statutes xvii
Table of Statutory Instruments xix
Table of Cases xxi
1 Liability and compensation for psychiatric injury: an overview 1(21)
1 What is psychiatric injury?
1(7)
2 A brief history
8(4)
3 Why is psychiatric injury so controversial?
12(3)
4 Causes of action
15(5)
A Negligence
15(2)
B Claims in contract
17(1)
C Claims for psychiatric injury from other torts
18(2)
D Criminal Injuries Compensation
20(1)
5 Summary
20(2)
2 Primary victims of negligence: shock cases 22(24)
1 Primary victims
22(1)
2 Direct participants in events which also cause or risk physical injury to the victim
22(5)
A Psychiatric injury associated with significant physical injury
22(1)
B Soft-tissue injury and depression
23(1)
C Brain injury and 'personality change'
24(1)
D Serious psychiatric injury associated with minor physical injury
25(1)
E Delayed onset of severe psychiatric injury accompanying physical injury
26(1)
3 'Pure' psychiatric injury arising from an accident where physical injury to the claimant was foreseeable
27(8)
4 'Pure' psychiatric injury with no physical injury and no shocking event
35(1)
5 Rescuers
36(4)
6 Other 'involuntary participants'
40(5)
7 'Primary victims' in 'shock cases'
45(1)
3 Primary victims of negligence: non-shock cases 46(14)
1 Introduction
46(1)
2 Employer's liability: stress at work
47(11)
A Breach of duty
47(11)
3 Non-employer's liability
58(2)
4 Secondary victims of negligence 60(24)
1 Secondary victims
60(1)
2 The Hillsborough disaster
60(2)
3 'Secondary victims'
62(3)
4 Reasonable foreseeability
65(11)
A 'Normal phlegm'
67(1)
B 'Eggshell personality'
67(1)
C 'Hindsight'
67(1)
D The requirement for 'shock'
68(2)
E Close ties of love and affection
70(3)
F Proximity in time and space
73(1)
G Means by which events are perceived
74(2)
5 Excluded categories of secondary victim
76(1)
A Self-harm by defendant
76(1)
B Recipients of news
77(1)
6 What did the Law Commission propose and was it necessary'?
77(2)
7 Subsequent case law
79(3)
A Interpretation of proximity
79(1)
B Sudden, shocking event
80(1)
C Means of perception: broadcasters
80(1)
D Liability of primary victims to secondary victims
81(1)
8 Secondary victims-a summary
82(2)
A Distinction between primary and secondary victims
82(1)
B Reasonable foreseeability
82(1)
C Controls
82(1)
D The future
83(1)
5 Intentional acts and other liability 84(21)
1 Assault and battery
84(5)
A Battery
84(1)
B Assault
84(1)
C Intentional infliction of harm
85(1)
D Criminal injures
86(2)
E Contract
88(1)
2 Statutory harassment
89(8)
A Potential defendants
90(1)
B Meaning of harassment
91(4)
C Harassment outside the workplace
95(1)
D Checklist for harassment claims under the PHA 1997
96(1)
3 Statutory discrimination
97(8)
A Protected characteristics
97(2)
B Disability and psychiatric injury
99(1)
C Direct discrimination
100(1)
D Indirect discrimination
100(1)
E Discrimination arising from a disability
101(1)
F Perceived and association discrimination
101(1)
G Practical considerations in a disability discrimination claim
101(2)
H Damages generally
103(1)
I Injury to feelings
103(1)
J Psychiatric injury
104(1)
6 The illness 105(22)
1 Recognised psychiatric conditions, and diagnosis
105(1)
2 Types of injury
106(12)
A Post-traumatic stress disorder
106(3)
B Anxieties and phobias
109(1)
C Depression
110(2)
D Adjustment disorders
112(1)
E Somatisation and somatoform disorders
112(2)
F Chronic pain
114(1)
G Exacerbation of existing conditions (eg psychosis or bipolar disorder)
115(1)
H Psychotic disorders
116(1)
I Alcohol and substance misuse problems
117(1)
3 Head injuries-overlap with structural brain injury
118(1)
4 Whiplash etc-overlap with physical injury
118(1)
5 Pre-existing vulnerability
119(1)
6 Psychiatric treatments
120(1)
7 Children
121(1)
8 Psychiatric experts
122(5)
A Psychiatrists and psychologists
122(1)
B Psychometric tests
123(1)
C Understanding medical notes and reports
124(1)
D Miscellaneous difficulties with obtaining a psychiatric report
125(2)
7 Compensation 127(24)
1 Background
127(2)
2 General damages: pain, suffering and loss of amenity (PSLA)
129(9)
A General psychiatric damage
131(4)
B Post-traumatic stress disorder
135(1)
C Problematic medical/psychological conditions
136(2)
3 CICA and the tariff scheme
138(1)
4 Special damages
139(4)
A Case managers/carers/buddies
140(2)
B Short-term treatment interventions
142(1)
5 Practical effect on financial loss claims
143(1)
Mitigation
143(1)
6 Provisional damages
144(1)
7 Causation of damage: material contribution, apportionment and acceleration
145(6)
A Material contribution
146(1)
B Apportionment
146(2)
C Acceleration
148(1)
D Summary of causation of damage issues in psychiatric injury claims
149(2)
8 Practical steps 151(23)
1 Instructions: identifying potential psychiatric injury
151(2)
2 Reviewing past medical history
153(3)
What records
154(2)
3 Building a team
156(3)
A Counsel
157(1)
B The client and their family as part of the team
158(1)
C Legal expense insurers
159(1)
4 Choosing and instructing experts
159(2)
A Which expert
160(1)
5 Handling the client
161(3)
A Difficult clients
161(1)
B Capacity
162(1)
C Mental Capacity Act
162(1)
D Coming off the record
163(1)
6 Rehabilitation
164(3)
A Case management outside of the Rehabilitation Code
166(1)
B Psychiatric rehabilitation facilities
166(1)
C Counselling and general psychiatric outpatient sessions
167(1)
D In-patient psychiatric care
167(1)
7 Attitudes of defendants: malingering, fraud and exaggeration
167(3)
A Malingering
169(1)
B How to detect malingering, fraud and exaggeration
170(1)
8 Costs and retainer issues
170(4)
9 The Mental Capacity Act 2005 174(20)
1 Historical perspective
174(1)
2 The new legislation
175(1)
3 The Court of Protection
175(1)
4 The principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
176(2)
A Presumption of capacity
176(1)
B Practical steps to help P make the decision for himself
177(1)
C Unwise decisions
177(1)
D Best interests
177(1)
E Least restrictive option
178(1)
5 People who lack capacity
178(1)
6 Inability to make a decision
178(2)
A 'To understand the information relevant to the decision'
179(1)
B 'To retain that information'
179(1)
C 'To use or weigh that information as part of the process of making the decision'
179(1)
D 'To communicate his decision (whether by talking, using sign language or any other means'
180(1)
7 Passing the test for incapacity
180(1)
8 Best interests checklist
180(3)
9 Children who lack capacity
183(1)
10 Acts in connection with care or treatment
183(3)
A Powers of the court
184(1)
B Litigation capacity
185(1)
11 Managing property and affairs
186(2)
12 Making an application to the Court of Protection
188(4)
A Application for property and affairs deputyship
189(2)
B Application for personal welfare deputyship
191(1)
C Personal welfare decisions
191(1)
D Contested applications
192(1)
13 Costs
192(2)
10 The future 194(13)
1 The Law Commission report
194(2)
2 The Australian experience
196(1)
3 The insurers
197(1)
4 Alternatives proposed for the United Kingdom
198(1)
5 Possible future developments
199(6)
A 'Recognised psychiatric injury'
200(1)
B The Page v Smith controversy
201(1)
C Rescuers
201(1)
D The requirement of foreseeability of psychiatric injury in stress at work cases
202(1)
E Secondary victims' proximity: close ties of love and affection
203(1)
F Secondary victims' proximity: 'shock' and space and time
203(1)
G Secondary victims' proximity: means of perception
204(1)
H Divisible/indivisible injury
204(1)
6 Conclusion
205(2)
Index 207
Jenny Kennedy and David Marshall from specialist London firm Anthony Gold, and barrister Rehana Azib, from leading chambers 2 Temple Gardens.