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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims by David Marshall Jenny Kennedy Rehana Azib Amanda Hopkins
Provides guidance to the complexities of establishing liability as well as assistance on running psychiatric claims. Such cases are technically challenging with regard to establishing liability and causation.This edition includes the following developments:1. Implications of the litigation surrounding the Grenfell Tower disaster 2. Discussion of the change in attitude towards mental health since 2012 3. Discussion of Marsh v Ministry of Justice [2017] and Yapp -v- Foreign and Commonwealth Office [2014] 4. Developments in secondary victim claims in particular what constitutes a shocking event 5. Update on material contribution – BAE System (Operations) Ltd -v- Marion Konczak [2017] 6. Changes to the classification of psychiatric injury and how these are litigated for eg HHJ Gore QC in Liverpool Women’s hospital case