Question: 'The House of Lords has stated in the clearest possible terms in White v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (1999) that the law on nervous shock or psychiatric damage is so illogical that only Parliament can come up with a solution.’ Discuss the above statement.
Answer: The law on nervous shock, or ‘psychiatric damage’ as it is sometimes now called, has developed considerably since the original refusal to impose liability in Victorian Railway Commissioners v Coalthas (1888). It has progressed from allowing recovery where the claimant was...(short extract)
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- Subject: Law
- Course: Tort Law
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 71%
- Words: 3005
- Date submitted: July 03, 2009
- Date written: March, 2009
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 2392
