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Psychiatric Injury: Taking a look at secondary victim claims ‘de Novo’
Charles Bagot analyses a quartet of new cases produced in the period since December 2014 ‘Some of the decisions in the 21 years between Alcock in 1992 and Taylor in 2013 are difficult to reconcile with one another and have made it harder to find a consistent thread through this line of cases.’ This article …
Cases Referenced
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- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1991] UKHL 5
- Berisha v Stone Superstore (2014) unreported, Manchester County Court, 2 December
- Brock v Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust & another [2014] EWHC 4244 (QB)
- Galli-Atkinson v Seghal [2003] EWCA Civ 697
- McLoughlin v O'Brian [1982] UKHL 3
- Shorter v Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 614 (QB)
- Taylor v A Novo (UK) Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 194
- Taylorson v Shieldness Produce Ltd [1994] EWCA Civ 16
- White v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [1998] UKHL 45
- Wild v Southend Hospital NHS Trust [2014] EWHC 4053 (QB)