David Marshall

Jenny Kennedy

Amanda Hopkins

Rehana Azib

"Provides guidance to the complexities of establishing liability, as well as assistance on running psychiatric claims. Such cases are technically challenging with regard to establishing liability and causation. The authors seek to provide an essential route map through the 'patchwork quilt' of the current law. This edition deals with the development of law and practice since the first edition, in particular: 1. Anticipating the implications of the litigation surrounding the Grenfell Tower disaster - revisiting primary and secondary victim categories and how the legal framework established following the Hillsborough disaster will be tested in a different social media age. 2. Include a discussion of the change in attitude towards mental health since 2012 (for example the Royal Family campaign, NHS initiatives, young male suicide rate campaign), a change with which the law has not kept pace. 3. Discussion of Marsh v Ministry of Justice [2017] EWHC 1040 (QB) - David Marshall of Anthony Gold being the instructed solicitor in this case and this being the only reported successful high court case since the publication of the first edition. Yapp -v- Foreign and Commonwealth Office [2014] EWCA Civ 1512 to be distinguished and discussed. 4. Developments in secondary victim claims, in particular what constitutes a shocking event - Re (a Minor) and Others -v- Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWHC 824 in which childbirth constituted a shocking event. To be discussed in the context of what is deemed to fall short of 'shocking' ( Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust -v- Ronayne [2015] EWCA Civ 588 - in which a husband failed as a secondary victim where the operation was a hysterectomy rather than childbirth). Paul & Others -v- Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2019] EWHC 2893 (QB) regarding proximity to the negligent act. YAH -v- Medway NHS Foundation Trust [2018] EWHC 2964 (QB) regarding whether the victim is truly a secondary victim or if they are really a primary victim. 5. Update on material contribution - BAE System (Operations) Ltd -v- Marion Konczak [2017] EWCA Civ 1188 6. Update on any changes to the classification of psychiatric injury and how these are litigated, for eg HHJ Gore QC in Liverpool Women's hospital case rejecting diagnosis of PTSD but finding 'a frank psychiatric illness'."--

Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims

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Jordan Peterson Adult Activity Coloring Book

Yolande Strengers

"A fascinating look at the gendering of smart homes, how they came to be so, and how modern households can and should be domains of equality"--

Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

The Smart Wife

A bold dive into the problematic development (and developers) of "smart wives"--feminized digital assistants who are friendly, sometimes flirty, docile, efficient, occasionally glitchy, and perpetually available. Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty, docile and efficient, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. She might go by Siri, or Alexa, or inhabit Google Home. She can keep us company, order groceries, vacuum the floor, turn out the lights. A Japanese digital voice assistant--a virtual anime hologram named Hikari Azuma--sends her "master" helpful messages during the day; an American sexbot named Roxxxy takes on other kinds of household chores. In The Smart Wife, Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy examine the emergence of digital devices that carry out "wifework"--domestic responsibilities that have traditionally fallen to (human) wives. They show that the principal prototype for these virtual helpers--designed in male-dominated industries--is the 1950s housewife: white, middle class, heteronormative, and nurturing, with a spick-and-span home. It's time, they say, to give the Smart Wife a reboot.

Jenny Kennedy

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