Psychiatric Damage: Problems for claimants

1 Chancery Lane | Personal Injury Law Journal | February 2016 #142
Edward Bishop QC sets out cases that demonstrate the instances in which a secondary victim claim might be successful ‘Claimants advisers must be alert to the need for psychiatric experts to attribute recognised illness to the shock of seeing a horrific event, rather than other factors.’Claims for damages for psychiatric illness suffered by those who …

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Psychiatric Injury: Taking a look at secondary victim claims ‘de Novo’

Hardwicke Chambers | Personal Injury Law Journal | June 2015 #136
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 …

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