Harding v The Pub Estate Company Ltd [2005] All ER (D) 156 (May) CA
Reports relating to this case:
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Employers' liability: Employer not responsible for pub's rough customers
- Date:
- 29 July 2005
In Harding v The Pub Estate Company Ltd, the Court of Appeal holds that the approach adopted by the Court of Appeal in Hartman v South Essex Mental Health and Community Care NHS Trust is correct. The test is whether injury through stress at work, whether physical or psychiatric, to the particular employee was reasonably foreseeable in the light of what the employer knew, or ought to have known.
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High hurdles to clear hinder stress-related injury claims
- Date:
- 21 June 2005
Guidelines were set out by the Court of Appeal in Sutherland v Hatton [2002] IRLR when determining whether an employer is liable for psychiatric injury caused by stress at work. But what is the position when stress results in physical injury?
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Case round-up: Stress at work
- Date:
- 31 May 2005
This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering stress at work.
