Practical Guide to Psychiatric Claims in Personal Injury - 2nd Edition

The law relating to claims for psychiatric injury is complex, varied, and hard to grapple with and can often appear labyrinthian. This is a practical guide for dealing with personal injury claims involving psychiatric injuries and is aimed to assist both the newcomer and the experienced practitioner alike.

As our understanding and acceptance of the nature of psychiatric injury has grown over the last two decades, so has the regularity of such claims appearing in practice as well as the varied ways in which they arise, be it a straightforward psychiatric reaction to injury or a complex stress at work claim.

This work breaks the topic down into practical and easily assimilable components to assist practitioners and supplement their knowledge through a combination of detailed discussion of the law, coupled with practical suggestions for practise.

This Second Edition is updated and expanded particularly in the areas stress at work and the latest developments in secondary victim claims.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Liam Ryan Studied Law at St Aidan's College, Durham University and completed a LLM at Nottingham University specialising in Commercial law, Criminal law and Human Rights.

Liam has a civil practice specialising in medium to high value personal injury actions and commercial litigation. He has a noted specialism in stress at work and psychiatric injury claims. Liam accepts instructions privately, on a Conditional Fee basis and through Direct Access. Liam is a member of PIBA.

CONTENTS

Chapter One - Introduction

Chapter Two - Diagnosis

Chapter Three - Primary Victims: Cases Involving Physical Injury

Chapter Four - Primary Victims, Rescuers and Involuntary Participants

Chapter Five - Primary Victims: Cases Where There Is No Physical Injury: Nervous Shock

Chapter Six - Secondary Victims

Chapter Seven - Secondary Victims and Emerging Areas

Chapter Eight - Stress at Work Claims: Overview

Chapter Nine - The Hatton Guidelines

Chapter Ten - Stress at Work Claims and Foreseeable Harm

Chapter Eleven - Stress at Work and The Breach of Duty of Care

Chapter Twelve - Stress at Work Claims and Bullying

Chapter Thirteen - Breach of Contract in Stress at Work Claims

Chapter Fourteen - The Equality Act 2010 in Stress Claims

Chapter Fifteen - Causation and Apportionment and in Stress Claims

Chapter Sixteen - Other Tortious Acts

Chapter Seventeen - Quantum and Evidence

Chapter Eighteen - General Damages

Chapter Nineteen - Special Damages