Responsabilité délictuelle et réparation du préjudice moral: où en est la common law canadienne? (Tort Liability and Psychiatric Injury: Overview of the Canadian Common Law (for a Civil Law Audience))
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Abstract
En common law, le developpement des principes lies a la reparation du prejudice moral s'effectue tres progressivement. De nos jours, la maladie mentale etant peu a peu demystifiee, les tribunaux sont confrontes de plus en plus souvent a des demandes pour la reparation de ce type de prejudice. Guides surtout par le souci de ne pas elargir demesurement la responsabilite, les tribunaux formulent une serie de principes plutot restrictifs visant a contenir, pour le moment du moins, le nombre des reclamations. Le present article decrit et analyse les categories de situations ou la reparation du prejudice moral est possible en common law canadienne. Cette etude revele que la victime immediate d'un prejudice moral decoulant d'un prejudice corporel est mieux placee pour se faire indemniser que la victime indirecte qui subit seulement un prejudice moral. En bout de ligne, bien que des modifications aux regles de droit soient requises, l'auteure conclut que c'est l'attitude des tribunaux face au prejudice moral qui doit changer pour que la common law reponde mieux aux besoins des victimes. Common law courts have always shown restraint towards victims of psychiatric damage. Nowadays, as rapid and constant developments occur in the field of mental health, courts are more and more often faced with claims for compensation in respect of psychiatric harm. Guided by the ever-present need to limit liability for potential defendants, common law courts have formulated a series of restrictive rules meant to control the flow of litigation. The present article describes and analyses the categories of situations where damages for psychiatric injury may be recovered in Canadian common law. The study reveals that primary victims of psychiatric injury who have also suffered physical damages are much more likely to succeed than secondary victims who have suffered psychiatric damage only. Ultimately, although amendments in the law would be required, a change is needed first and foremost in the general attitude of common law courts towards victims of psychological harm in order to achieve more equitable results.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.023 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".