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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Allcock, Martin
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Thomson Reuters 2019
Subjects:	1801 - Law
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80012

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