Employee's stress claim fails as psychiatric harm was "not foreseeable"

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• Pinsent Masons Employment Group

The Court of Appeal has held that an employer was not liable for personal injury caused to an employee by its failure to deal with an allegation of harassment in accordance with its procedures. The psychiatric harm suffered was not foreseeable.

The employee, Mr Deadman, had worked for the council for 30 years and had an unblemished record when an allegation of sexual harassment was made against him. The employer's harassment policy provided that complaints of harassment would be dealt with... (515 more words)

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