Martinius J
Heckscher-Klinik, Institut und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Z Kinder Jugendpsychiatr. 1995 Mar;23(1):4-8.
Child and adolescent psychiatry is concerned with many forensic questions. Among these, expert testimony about immaterial injury (pain, suffering) in conjunction with claims for compensation is being requested with increasing frequency. Until recently German law took the position that in cases of severe brain damage compensation (smart money) had to be granted only as a symbolic payment because the loss of cognition and lack of suffering excluded a feeling of satisfaction resulting from compensation. The highest court in Germany has now revised its position by introducing a new category of immaterial injury. This additional category refers to cases of severe brain damage where the "loss of personal quality" in itself creates the basis for a claim for compensation. As a result, related medical examinations and evaluations require as careful a description as possible and the use of scales to assess quality of life.
儿童和青少年精神病学涉及诸多法医问题。其中，与赔偿诉求相关的关于非物质损伤（疼痛、痛苦）的专家证词的需求日益增加。直到最近，德国法律的立场是，在严重脑损伤的情况下，赔偿（抚慰金）只能作为象征性支付，因为认知丧失和缺乏痛苦排除了因赔偿而产生的满足感。德国最高法院现在通过引入一种新的非物质损伤类别来修正其立场。这一新增类别指的是严重脑损伤的情况，其中“个人品质的丧失”本身就构成了赔偿诉求的依据。因此，相关的医学检查和评估需要尽可能仔细地描述，并使用量表来评估生活质量。
