Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84592-113-2
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kennedy, Jenny

Marshall, David

Azib, Rehana

Azib KC, Rehana Azib

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Liability and compensation for psychiatric injury: an overview;
2 Primary victims of negligence: shock cases;
3 Primary victims of negligence: non-shock cases;
4 Secondary victims of negligence;
5 Intentional acts and other liability;
6 The illness;
7 Compensation;
8 Practical steps;
9 The Mental Capacity Act 2005;
10 The future 194.

Über Autor(innen)

Azib KC, Rehana Azib
Rehana is a London-based barrister specialising in personal injury and employment law, especially occupational stress, harassment, and discrimination claims. She graduated with a Law degree from the University of Oxford in 2001 and is a scholar of the Inner Temple. She is recommended as a leading junior in the Legal 500 and is also an Accredited Advocacy Trainer. She co-authored "Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims" in 2012. She was awarded the National Young Achiever of the Year at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2009 and was a Finalist at the British Muslim Awards 2013. She is also featured in the International Asian Who's Who Guide. Rehana is Patron of the international law firm Bird & Bird's Bursary Foundation and has been a guest speaker on BBC World Service Radio on equality issues.

Kennedy, Jenny
Jenny Kennedy is a Partner in the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence department at Anthony Gold Solicitors. She specialises in complex and serious head and spinal injury claims.

The 2016 edition of Chambers ranks her as a "star individual", one of just three in the field of personal injury in London. This independent guide to the legal profession describes her as "extremely thorough and dedicated to her clients" for whom "she always goes the extra mile". She fights "tooth and nail" for her clients and one client comments how "she always made herself available and made sense of complex issues". The Legal 500 2015 ranks her as a "leading individual", who describe her as "exceptional".

Jenny is on the joint editorial board of Kemp & Kemp: Personal Injury Law, Practice and Procedure. She is co-author of Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims and she is also a co-author of Personal Injury Practice, both published by Bloomsbury Professional.

Jenny Kennedy and David Marshall from specialist London firm Anthony Gold, and barrister Rehana Azib, from leading chambers 2 Temple Gardens.