RadcliffesLeBrasseur, 'Psychiatric Patients and Windows' (briefing no 16, August 1999)
Claim under Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 This briefing mentions a settled case (Walters v Chichester Health Authority, 26 April 1999) in which the patient obtained £253,536 damages for personal injury after climbing out of an open first-floor window in the hospital corridor which should have been shut.