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Causing psychiatric and emotional harm : reshaping the boundaries of legal liability /
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 i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart Pub.,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 205 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847314789 1847314783 1282119028 9781282119024 9781472560377 147256037X |