Psychiatric Injury Flashcards
Reilly v Merseyside heath authority
Must be recognised psychiatric injury not ordinary human emotions
Sion v Hampstead health authority
Must be a horrifying event
Page v Smith
•PVs don’t have to show that the psychiatric injury was foreseeable just that any injury was
•PVs don’t have to be person of normal fortitude
Alcock
•close ties of love & affection with PV
•witness accident or immediate aftermath
•must suffer shock through own unaided senses
McGloughlin
Immediate post accident state/not cleaned up
Chadwick v British Transport
Danger & injury is foreseeable to those who try to help & rescue
White
Rescuers must objectively put self in danger , defendant not responsible for the world at large
McFarlane
Bystanders can’t claim unless they fulfill Alcock