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    A Corrective Justice Justification for Considering the Response of the Hypothetical Person of an ‘Ordinary Level of Susceptibility’ when Assessing Reasonable Foreseeability in Case Involving Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury

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    Authors
    Allcock, Martin
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Allcock, M. 2019. A Corrective Justice Justification for Considering the Response of the Hypothetical Person of an ‘Ordinary Level of Susceptibility’ when Assessing Reasonable Foreseeability in Case Involving Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury. Tort Law Review. 26: pp. 985-1007.
    Source Title
    Tort Law Review
    ISSN
    1039-3285
    Faculty
    Faculty of Business and Law
    School
    Curtin Law School
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80012
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The law has long been concerned with limiting recovery for pure psychiatric injury in negligence in order to prevent liability to plaintiffs who are unusually susceptible to this type of injury. The justifications provided by the courts for this concern have often centred on the idea that holding a defendant liable to such a plaintiff will be unreasonable. However, there is a gap in the reasoning justifications for measuring the reasonableness of the defendant's conduct against the effect of that conduct on the hypothetical person of an "ordinary level of susceptibility". This article attempts to address this gap, arguing that measuring the reasonableness of the defendant's conduct in this way in relation to an overriding test of reasonable foreseeability can be explained pursuant to Allan Beever's corrective justice theory of negligence.

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