Lindsey, Jaime (2018) 'Psychiatric Injury Claims and Pregnancy: Re (a Minor) and Others v Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWHC 824.' Medical Law Review, 26 (1). pp. 117-124. ISSN 0967-0742
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Abstract
RE and others concerned a clinical negligence claim against the Defendant NHS Trust by a baby injured during childbirth, as well by her mother and grandmother for psychiatric injury found to have been caused by those events. This commentary focuses on the claim for psychiatric injury by the mother and grandmother, both of which succeeded on the basis that the childbirth was a sufficiently shocking and horrifying event. This commentary urges caution about this development based on how it represents law’s view of childbirth and the growth of claims that might result from any expansion of liability in this area.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Childbirth, Negligence, Pregnancy, Psychiatric injury, Secondary victims |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Women K Law > K Law (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA790 Mental Health |
Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Humanities > Law, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Elements |
Depositing User: | Elements |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2018 13:25 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2022 13:49 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/21796 |
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