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Psychiatric Damage: Problems for claimants
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 …
Cases Referenced
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- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1991] UKHL 5
- Baker v Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust [2015] EWHC 609 (QB)
- Berisha v Stone Superstore (2014) unreported, Manchester County Court, 2 December
- Dickins v O2 plc [2008] EWCA Civ 1144
- Galli-Atkinson v Seghal [2003] EWCA Civ 697
- Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v Ronayne [2015] EWCA Civ 588
- Owers v Medway NHS Foundation Trust [2015] EWHC 2363 (QB)
- Shorter v Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 614 (QB)
- Taylor v A Novo (UK) Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 194
- Walters v North Glamorgan NHS Trust [2002] EWCA Civ 1792
- Ward v Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust [2004] EWHC 2106 (QB)
- Wells v University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust [2015] EWHC 2376 (QB) (Dingemans J)
- Wild v Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2014] EWHC 4053 (QB)