PTSD<\/a> and comorbid depersonalisation\/derealisation disorder\u201d and \u201cfunctional neurological disorder\u201d.<\/p>\n\u201cShe remains significantly incapacitated by her injuries,\u201d he says. \u201cHer long-term relationship with her partner…failed as a result of her psychological illness.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow she lives alone and leads an extremely reclusive, impoverished and dysfunctional life.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe does not go out much. She is not able to care for herself. She cannot cook or clean or do grocery shopping. Her home is untidy and dirty as a result. She struggles with self-care.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe can go for days without changing her clothes or washing her hair. She doesn’t eat properly. As she is unable to exercise, she has gained weight; she used to be a UK size 6-8 and now is a size 14-16.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ms Revell had a history of mental health problems (Supplied by Champion News)<\/p>\n
Although she had a history of mental health problems going back to her adolescence, she had been in good mental and physical health since 2013-14 and until the yoga course, he continues.<\/p>\n
\u201cNowhere in the brochure was she put on notice that the course would entail any psychology\/psychotherapy aspect,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt no point was any warning given as to the risk of possible retraumatisation as a result of engaging on any of the exercises on the yoga course.<\/p>\n
\u201cParticipation in all the sessions on the course was mandatory in order to obtain their yoga teacher accreditation.<\/p>\n
\u201cHad she been informed about the requirement to engage in psychology and or psychotherapy based on potentially traumatic or distressing childhood memories and parental interactions she would never have signed up for the course.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the company’s defence, its lawyers had previously denied any fault and said there was no psychological nor psychotherapy element to the course.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was however a yoga course and there was therefore an inevitable focus on physical, mental and spiritual practices,\u201d they sid. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are discussions about feelings as part of yoga.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no requirement to engage in psychology\/psychotherapy and the claimant knew that yoga involved spiritual healing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe claimant completed the exercise without complaint or distress and at the end of the session approached Ms Aguilar and said that she had loved the exercise and was moved by it. She gave Ms Aguilar a hug.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is denied that the claimant was obliged to engage in any exercise.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is denied that she was required to \u2018access her childhood memories and parental interactions.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThe claimant was told what the purpose and goal of the…exercise was before it commenced, along with how it would be conducted. She could have refused to participate if she so wished.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is denied that the purpose of the exercise was to elicit potentially traumatic or distressing childhood memories. The purpose of the exercise was purely to feel love and develop forgiveness for anyone who had wronged you. This included parents and parking attendants.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is admitted that no warning was given as to possible re-traumatisation as a result of engaging in any of the exercises on the course. Re-traumatisation was not foreseeable as a consequence of the exercise carried out by the claimant.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is denied that the defendant was obliged to carry out any sort of prospective assessment of the claimant\u2019s psychological state. It was sufficient for the defendant to enquire whether the claimant had any physical or mental conditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe claimant …confirmed, when signing the waiver, that she had no existing mental and physical conditions and no pre-existing conditions, both physical and mental, which may affect her performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a short hearing conducted via videolink, Master Dagnall told Mr Clarke: \u201cIf you are not going to turn up to defend the claim, your chances of success would seem to be remote.\u201d<\/p>\n
The judge went on to make a so-called \u201cunless order\u201d directing that the company’s defence on liability be struck out unless Mr Clarke confirmed by the end of Monday 17 November that he intended to personally turn up and fight his company’s case in court in the absence of lawyers.<\/p>\n
Lawyers for Ms Revell later said outside court that Mr Clarke, on behalf of the company, had confirmed it would not be attending trial, meaning judgment will be entered for the claimant on liability, with damages to be assessed.<\/p>\n
The value of her claim will now be assessed during the next stage of the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-305838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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