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The summaries of cases on these pages illustrate developments in the Law of Workplace Stress 1999 to 2007.
Foreseeability: Working Conditions
Foreseeability: Reasonable Steps
Foreseeability: Evidence: Notice of Psychiatric Injury
Foreseeability: Contributory Negligence
Foreseeability: Excessive Workload
Foreseeability: Arrangements for Return to Work
Victim classification: Employee Witnessing Colleague’s Death
Victim classification: Post-
Constructive dismissal: Implied Term to take Reasonable Care for Health and Safety of Employees
Constructive Dismissal: Medical Evidence
Unfair Dismissal: Cause of Illness
Unfair Dismissal: Employment Tribunal: Compensation for Personal Injury
Unfair dismissal: Common Law Remedy
Disability Discrimination: Anxiety Disorder: Medical Evidence
Disability Discrimination: Disability: Medical Diagnosis
Disability Discrimination: Disability: Evidence of Mental Impairment
Damages: Causation: Exacerbation of Pre-
Damages: Quantum: Bullying at Work
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Damages: Quantum: Anxiety Resulting from Minor Physical Injury
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Service Personnel: Safe System of Work
Employment Tribunal Procedure: Postponement of Hearing: Medical Evidence
Foreseeability: Race Discrimination
Breach of Contract: Unfair Dismissal
Knowledge of Employer: Special Educational Needs School Teacher
Foreseeability: Stress Reduction Policy
Vicarious Liability: Breach of Statutory Duty: Harassment
Psychiatric Injury: Harassment: Foreseeability
Stress: Duty of Care Owed: Foreseeability
Stress: Duty of Care Owed: Workload
Stress: Foreseeability: Vicarious Liability
Psychiatric Injury: Foreseeability: Duty of Care
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Post-
Stress:duty of Care Owed: Workload
Psychiatric Injury: Foreseeability: Duty of Care
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Corr v IBC Vehicles Ltd (2006)The Times, April 21, House of Lords
Serious injury from an accident caused by an employer’s negligence which resulted
in an employee suffering post-
C suffered an accident at work which the employers admitted to have been caused by
their negligence. He underwent several operations and then began to suffer from
post-
Decision:
1. The employers were liable.
2. The harm on which the claim was founded was depression, which was admitted to be a foreseeable consequence of the employers’ negligence.
3. Suicide was not an uncommon result of depression.
4. There was no cause other than depression for the employee’s suicide.
5. The employers were liable to pay damages both for the physical damage done to the deceased and for the depression which he suffered as a result.
6. There was no prior ground of legal logic and no surviving ground of legal policy for excluding suicide from the compensable consequences of actionable negligence.
7. To cut the chain of causation and to treat the employee as responsible for his own death would be to make an unjustified exception to contemporary principles of causation.
8. If liability was established for the depression, the question in each case became whether it had been shown that it was the depression which drove the employee to take his own life. Here, it clearly was.
This decision was confirmed by the House of Lords.