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Psychiatric Injury: Victims of circumstance
Liam Ryan reports on claims by rescuers and secondary victims, and assesses the need for law reform ‘Is it not time to at least consider if people who provide more than “trivial or peripheral assistance” in the wake of a disaster should also be classed as rescuers in a new, and wider, concept?’ In recent …
Cases Referenced
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- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1991] UKHL 5
- Chadwick v British Railways Board [1967] 1 WLR 912
- Galli-Atkinson v Seghal [2003] EWCA Civ 697
- Hegarty v EE Caledonia Ltd [1997] 2 Lloyd's Rep 259
- Jones v Ramshaw (Unreported 9 June 2011)
- Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v Ronayne [2015] EWCA Civ 588
- McFarlane v EE Caledonia Ltd [1993] EWCA Civ 27
- McLoughlin v O'Brian [1982] UKHL 3
- Monk v PC Harrington UK Ltd [2008] EWHC 1879 (QB)
- North Glamorgan NHS Trust v Walters [2002] EWCA Civ 1792
- Shorter v Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 614 (QB)
- Taylor v A Novo (UK) Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 194
- White & ors v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire & ors [1998] UKHL 45