Psychiatric Injury Flashcards
1
Q
Reilly v Merseyside heath authority
A
Must be recognised psychiatric injury not ordinary human emotions
2
Q
Sion v Hampstead health authority
A
Must be a horrifying event
3
Q
Page v Smith
A
•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
4
Q
Alcock
A
•close ties of love & affection with PV
•witness accident or immediate aftermath
•must suffer shock through own unaided senses
5
Q
McGloughlin
A
Immediate post accident state/not cleaned up
6
Q
Chadwick v British Transport
A
Danger & injury is foreseeable to those who try to help & rescue
7
Q
White
A
Rescuers must objectively put self in danger , defendant not responsible for the world at large
8
Q
McFarlane
A
Bystanders can’t claim unless they fulfill Alcock
