A Corrective Justice Justification for Considering the Response of the Hypothetical Person of an ‘Ordinary Level of Susceptibility’ when Assessing Reasonable Foreseeability in Case Involving Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury
The law has long been concerned with limiting recovery for pure psychiatric injury in negligence in order to prevent liability to plaintiffs who are unusually susceptible to this type of injury. The justifications provided by the courts for this concern have often centred on the idea that holding a...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Thomson Reuters
2019
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80012 |