Army veterans fail in stress claim

The High Court has rejected claims for damages from nearly 2,000 war veterans over post-traumatic stress disorder. The court ruled that there had been no ‘systemic failure on the part of the Ministry of Defence’, and that the claimants had failed to establish that the MoD was in breach of its duty of care. The veterans had claimed for damages for psychiatric injuries between 1969 and 1996, covering Northern Ireland, the Falkland Islands, Bosnia and the first Gulf War.