Suicide As Foreseeable Risk

Weekly Law Reports Case Summaries

 Reported 27 June 2006 by ICLR
Negligence
Corr v IBC Vehicles Ltd: [2006] EWCA Civ 331
CA
31 March 2006
Daily Law Notes Report Summary
Personal Injury of employee leading to depression and suicide.
Suicide should no longer be regarded as necessarily breaking a
chain of causation, and, as the evidence clearly established that
there was no other cause than the depression that drove the
deceased to suicide, there was no break in the chain of causation
preventing the claimant from establishing the defendant's
liability under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976.