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Psychiatric Injury : A Comparative Legal Study

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The recovery of damages for psychiatric injury is a complex area of personal injury law.

The difficulties that arise relate to identifying the precise harm to be expressed in a way that enables a lawyer to reach a view on negligence and then arrive at a reasonable figure for compensation.

This report studies the question to what extent negligently inflicted psychiatric injury qualifies for damages within the west European legal systems.

A survey looks at the French, English, German and Dutch law, as these systems can be considered representative of some of the major western European law families: Roman law, Germanic law and the Common law.

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Product Details
Informa Healthcare
1843110164 / 9781843110163
Loose-leaf
30/05/2001
United Kingdom
English
xxiii, 108p.
30 cm
postgraduate /research & professional /undergraduate Learn More
Authors, Rob Kottenhagenn and Pepita Kottenhagen-Edzes.