Damages for Psychiatric Injuries

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-86287-491-6
Verlag: Federation Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 352 g

Damages for Psychiatric Injuries offers a critique of liability for psychiatric injury in Australia and England. Author Des Butler examines current day understandings of psychiatric medicine, evaluates the legitimacy of past and current approaches to limiting liability, and examines the policy considerations which promote such limits. Butler also analyses the recommendations of the 2002 Ipp Panels Review of Negligence in Australia and resulting legislation. Succinct and readable, the book sets out a preferred approach to dealing with claims for psychiatric injuries, which recognises the scientific advances of recent times and reflects good legal reasoning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Butler, Des

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Thus Far and How Much Farther? A Medical Perspective Introduction Responses to trauma Relevant factors in the aetiology of trauma Step by Cautious Step Introduction Early treatment of nervous shock as physical injury The genesis of limitations Foreseeability: from flexibility to subterranean mutilation The Dillon v Legg legacy Australian manoeuvres: Jaensch to Gifford and beyond The English disaster: Alcock and beyond Competing Policy Considerations Introduction Relevant policy considerations Balancing competing considerations Bright Lines and Boundary Stones Introduction Concepts of damage Relevant stressors: the class of plaintiff Means of perceiving the stressor Physical proximity Causal proximity Pre-existing relationships: circumstantial proximity Self-inflicted death, injury or peril Stopping the Thing Where Good Sense Stops It Introduction Inclusion and exclusion Ipp Report and Australian tort reform legislation The relevant damage Conclusion Table of Cases/ Table of Statutes/ Index