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Pathological grief disorders: Parental psychiatric injuries
Julian Matthews examines some of the interesting legal issues arising in claims by parents for their own psychiatric conditions secondary to injuries to their children ‘The starting point for any legal analysis is that although it is foreseeable that a person who has witnessed an accident in which a loved one is killed or severely …
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- Hinz v Berry [1970] 2 QB 40
- North Glamorgan NHS Trust v Walters [2002] EWCA Civ 1792
- RE & ors v Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWHC 824 (QB)
- Vernon v Bosley (No 1) [1997] 1 All ER 577
- Wells & anor v University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust [2015] EWHC 2376 (QB)
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- YAH v Medway NHS Foundation Trust [2018] EWHC 2964 (QB)
- Zeromska-Smith v United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust [2019] EWHC 980 (QB)