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Case Report: Yapp v Foreign and Commonwealth Office [2014] EWCA Civ 1512
Taking the strain; foreseeability in occupational stress claims ‘Occupational stress cases, whether founded on cumulative stress or on a one-off act of unfairness, remain extremely difficult to win.’ This case provides important confirmation of the difficulties in establishing liability for injury arising from occupational stress. Hitherto it was arguable that the high foreseeability hurdle erected …
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