The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This paper grapples with the question of whether the law of psychiatric injury remains fit for purpose in the twenty-first century. Through analysing the historical development of this area of law an attempt is made to understand how it has come to be degradingly described as a patchwork quilt of distinctions. Once the history has been set out an attempt is made to learn from whatever historical mistakes there may have been and devise a way forward whereby the mistakes of the past can be avoided and a return to clarity can be achieved.
Publication Date
2018-01-01
Publication Title
The Plymouth Law & Criminal Justice Review
Volume
10
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
20
ISSN
2054-149X
Deposit Date
June 2019
Embargo Period
2024-11-04
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Owen, Jordan
(2018)
"Tearing Up the Patchwork Quilt: An Examination of How, Why and When Liability for Psychiatric Injury in the Tort of Negligence,"
The Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review: Vol. 10, Article 8.
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/plcjr/vol10/iss1/8
