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Psychiatric Injury: ‘Nervous shock’ – where are we now?
Andrew Hogarth QC analyses the recent approach of the courts to compensate primary and secondary victims ‘The acceptance by courts that some unmeritorious primary victims can succeed has led inevitably to a desire to ensure that secondary victims who are considered by the trial judge to be meritorious will succeed.’ Most would agree that the …
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- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1991] UKHL 5
- Annetts v Australian Stations Pty Ltd (2002) 211 CLR 317
- Chief Constable of West Yorkshire v Schofield [1998] EWCA Civ 838
- Farrell v Avon Health Authority [2001] QBD
- Galli-Atkinson v Seghal [2003] EWCA Civ 697
- Hatton v Sutherland [2002] EWCA Civ 76
- Jones v Ramshaw (Unreported 9 June 2011)
- McLoughlin v O'Brian [1982] UKHL 3
- Page v Smith [1995] UKHL 7
- Palmer v Tees Health Authority [1999] EWCA Civ 1533
- Taylor v A Novo (UK) Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 194
- Taylorson v Shieldness Produce Ltd [1994] EWCA Civ 16
- Tranmore v T E Scudder Ltd [1998] EWCA Civ 733
- White v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [1998] UKHL 45
- White v Lidl UK [2005] EWHC 871