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Psychiatric Damage
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Psychiatric Damage
Define psych damage
Primary or secondary victim
Primary
Directly involved + anticipated
injury – Page v Smith
Rescuer – Chadwick
Not just in official category
Secondary
Alcock’s case
Close tie of love and affection
Bourhill v Young
Proximity in space and time
McLoughlin v O’Brien
Perceived by C’s own senses
Sudden shock, not growing
realisation
Sion
Waters
Reasonable fortitude
Objective test
Primary victim owes no duty of
care to secondary victim
Greatorex v Greatorex
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- A level Law (Paper 2 - Tort) Note on Psychiatric Damage, created by AliC on 04/05/2015.
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