Are you representing a client or clients who have lost a child at birth (or some other trauma) due to negligence and as a result suffered a psychiatric injury? In the recent case of McManus v Murrumbidgee Local Health District Health Network [2016] NSWSC 1347 the mother sued for damages for nervous shock after the defendant failed to properly monitor her labour or manage her antenatal period and delivery with the result her newborn son died soon after birth in circumstances that could and should have been avoided by an earlier Caesarean section. What are some practical tips we can learn from this case, to assist when running psychiatric injury cases? … [Read more...]