Jaensch v Coffey
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Court | High Court |
| Judgment Date | 1984 |
| Neutral Citation | [1984] HCA 52,1984-0820 HCA E |
| Date | 1984 |
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103 cases
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Kelly v Hennessy
...I.L.R.M. 689. Hinz v. Berry [1970] 2 Q.B. 40; [1970] 2 W.L.R. 684; [1970] 1 All E.R. 1074. Jaensch v. Coffey (1984) 115 C.L.R. 549; 54 A.L.R. 417. McLoughlin v. O'Brian [1983] 1 A.C. 410; [1982] 2 W.L.R. 982; [1982] 2 All E.R. 298. Mullally v. Bus Éireann éireann [1992] I.L.R.M. 722. Appeal......
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Keeve v Health Service Executive
...what circumstances will amount to nervous shock in that context, one can begin by recalling that Brennan J., as he then was, in Jaensch v. Coffey (1984) 155 C.L.R. 549, said that psychiatric illness which was not induced by shock but by the experience of having to cope with bereavement did ......
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Curran v Cadbury (Ireland) Ltd
...no public policy that the plaintiff's claim, if substantiated should be excluded" (p.262) echoing Gibbs C.J. in Jaensch -v- Coffey( (1984) 155 C.L.R. 549, at p.556). He quoted Lord Russell of Killowen in McLoughlin -v- O'Brian, supra), who rejected the floodgates argument in that case. In M......
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4 books & journal articles
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Sticks, Stones and Words: Emotional Harm and the English Criminal Law
...Civ 331, (2006) 103(16) LSG 24.42 Bunyan v Jordan (1937) 57 CLR 1; Hinz v Berry [1970] 2 QB 40 at 42 (LordDenning MR); Jaensch v Coffey (1984) 155 CLR 549 at 587 (Deane J); Attia v BritishGas plc [1988] 1 QB 304 at 311 (Dillon LJ); Calveley v Chief Constable of Merseyside[1989] AC 1228 at 1......
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The Law of Bureaucratic Negligence in South Africa: A Comparative Commonwealth Perspective
...179 CLR 520 at 541 (HCA).53Home Office v Dorset Yacht [1970]AC 1004 at 1027 (HL).54[1932] AC 562 (HL) at 580.55Cf Jaensch v Coffey (1984) 155 CLR 549 at 607; McHugh ‘Neighbourhood, proximityand reliance’ in Finn (ed) Essays on torts (1989) 5 at 38; Corbett ‘Areformulation of the right tore......
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NEGLIGENCE LIABILITY TO PRIMARY VICTIMS OF PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS
...110. 14 Supra Note 15. 15 Supra Note 7 at 420. 16 Supra Note 1 at 104. 17 Supra Note 17. 18 Per Mr Justice Brennan in Jaensch v Coffey(1984) 54 A.L.R. 417 at 431. 19 Per Lord Lloyd in Page v Smith at 110. 20 See McLoughlin v O’Brian and Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police. 21......
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Secondary Iatrogenic Harm: Claims for Psychiatric Damage Following a Death Caused by Medical Error
...n Alcock vChief Constable forSouthYorkshirePolice [1992] 1 AC 310, 424.64 This is, however,the reasoning adopted in Jaensch vCo¡ey (1985) 155CLR 549.65 CompareAtkinson vSeghal [2003] EWCA Civ 697; [2003]Lloyd’s Rep Med 285 (discussed later)where the mother was awarded damages althoughthe bo......