Tort Law - Negligence and Psychiatric Injury

Question 1

Reasonable person test

Answer 1

Blyth

Question 2

Standard of learners

Answer 2

Nettleship v Weston

Question 3

Standard of professionals

Answer 3

Bolam

Question 4

Standard of children

Answer 4

Mullin v Richards

Question 5

Size of risk

Answer 5

Bolton v Stone

Question 6

Magnitude of likely harm

Answer 6

Paris v Stepney Borough Council

Question 7

Cost and effort of preventing

Answer 7

Latimer

Question 8

Social benefit

Answer 8

Watt v Hertfordshire CC

Question 9

Factual Cause

Answer 9

Barnett

Question 10

Legal Cause

Answer 10

Wagon Mound

Question 11

Physical symptoms of fear and panic do not amount to psychiatric injury

Answer 11

Reilly v Merseyside

Question 12

Grief and sorrow do not account for psychiatric injury

Answer 12

Hinz v Berry

Question 13

Directly involved in the zone of danger

Answer 13

Dulieu v White

Question 14

Rescuers

Answer 14

Hale v London Underground

Question 15

Criteria for secondary victims

Answer 15

Alcock

Question 16

Close ties of love and affection

Answer 16

Mcloughlin v O’Brian

Question 17

Bystanders

Answer 17

Bourhill v Young

Question 18

Not immediate aftermath

Answer 18

Taylorson

Question 19

Was the immediate aftermath

Answer 19

Atkinson

Question 20

Duty of care

Answer 20

Robinson

Question 21

Reasonably forseeable

Answer 21

Kent v Griffiths

Question 22

Ambulance staff

Answer 22

Kent v Griffiths

Question 23

Children

Answer 23

Mullin v Richards

Question 24

Doctors

Answer 24

Bolam

Question 25

Drivers

Answer 25

Nettleship v Weston

Question 26

Employers

Answer 26

Paris v Stepney borough council

Question 27

Fireman

Answer 27

Watt v Hertfordshire

Question 28

Manufacturers

Answer 28

Donoghue v Stevenson

Question 29

Police officers

Answer 29

Robinson

Question 30

Property owners

Answer 30

Miller

Question 31

Transportation

Answer 31

The Wagon Mound

Question 32

Workmen

Answer 32

Hale v London Underground