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T AGAINST W [2022] ScotCS CSOH_44 (27 May 2022)
The Outer House dismissed a teacher’s claim that workplace competence and disciplinary procedures caused psychiatric injury, finding no negligence and no foreseeable vulnerability.
MALONE AGAINST THE LORD ADVOCATE [2018] ScotCS CSOH_86 (17 August 2018)
The Court of Session refused to dismiss a workplace-stress claim for psychiatric injury, allowing proof before answer despite criticisms of the pleadings.
Monfrieff v Cooper & Anor [2013] ScotCS CSOH_180 (21 November 2013)
The Court of Session dismissed a claim for psychiatric injury arising from an employer’s correspondence with an absent employee and found no breach of duty.
INQUIRY UNDER THE FATAL ACCIDENTS AND INQUIRIES (SCOTLAND) ACT 1976 INTO THE SUDDEN DEATH OF IRENE MARGARET HOGG [2010] ScotSC 41 (18 January 2010)
Fatal accident inquiry into Irene Hogg’s death found immersion in water and paracetamol toxicity as the cause, with no further findings under section 6(1)(c)-(e).
INQUIRY UNDER THE FATAL ACCIDENTS AND INQUIRIES (SCOTLAND) ACT 1976 INTO THE SUDDEN DEATH OF IRENE MARGARET HOGG [2010] ScotSC 42 (18 January 2010)
Fatal Accident Inquiry into Irene Hogg’s death. The sheriff found death caused by immersion in water and paracetamol toxicity, and made no further findings.
Flood v The University Court of The University of Glasgow [2010] ScotCS CSIH_3 (25 November 2009)
The Inner House held that the pursuer’s pleadings in a workplace stress claim were sufficiently specific to allow the case to proceed to proof before answer.
Flood v The University Court of the University Of Glasgow [2008] ScotCS CSOH_98 (08 July 2008)
The Court of Session dismissed a workplace stress claim because the pursuer’s pleadings did not adequately specify the steps the employer should have taken to prevent psychiatric harm.
Taplin v. Fife Council [2002] ScotCS 319 (17 December 2002)
The Court of Session dismissed a teacher’s damages action for psychiatric injury, holding she had not pled enough to show the risk was reasonably foreseeable to her employer.
Stevenson v. East Dunbartonshire Council [2002] ScotCS 306 (29 November 2002)
A Scottish Court of Session case on whether a council could reasonably foresee psychiatric injury to a resident hall keeper exposed to excessive work demands.
McDonald Or Cross & Anor v Highlands & Islands Enterprise & Anor [2000] ScotCS 307 (5 December 2000)
The Court of Session considered whether workplace stress caused James Cross’s depression and suicide, and whether his employers were liable in negligence or statutory duty.
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