21 February 2022 Priya Vaidya 2389 Case Updates Thorvaldsen v Dundee City Council [2021] ScotCS CSOH 120 by Priya Vaidya The case: The pursuer, a teacher was struck on the head by a wooden partition, knocking him to the floor and rendering him briefly unconscious. He sought to recover damages from his employer. He claimed to have suffered a concussive head injury, followed by dizziness and confusion, debilitating headaches, and ultimately an exacerbation of his poor mental health, characterised by him in these proceedings as a recurrent depressive disorder and a somatic symptom disorder, from which he continued to suffer. The defenders said that the pursuer's injuries were limited to a concussive head injury and associated post - concussion symptoms, all of which resolved themselves within a period of about 7 weeks following the accident. The principal difficulty related to the evidence of the pursuer, whose persistent headaches, if they had an organic basis at all, could not be traced to any neurological injury sustained as a result of the accident. To continue reading you must be an EWI member, become a member and access exclusive content. Already a member? Login Share Print Tags Personal injuryPsychiatry10. Records Assessments and Site Visits11. Report Writing Related articles Lessons for Expert Witnesses from O'Neill v Scottish Ambulance Service Board: Independence, Expertise and the Boundaries of Expert Opinion in Remote Clinical Triage Advocate Economists and the Competition Appeal Tribunal EWI Annual Conference 2026: Opening keynote tackles the use of AI in Expert Reports Do not leave it until cross-examination to reveal your true opinion A Day in the Life of a General Practitioner Expert Witness Switch article A Local Authority v JB [2021] UKSC 52 Previous Article BCX v DTA [2021] EWHC B27 (Costs) Next Article Comments are only visible to subscribers.