psychiactric injury

Question 1

stage 1 of p.i

Answer 1

C must be suffering from a recognised psychiatric injury, not normal human emotions

Question 2

fear, distress panic

Answer 2

reilley v merseyside - not enough as they are normal human emotions

Question 3

assault on the senses

Answer 3

sion v hampstead - psychiatric injury must be caused by a traumatic incident

Question 4

primary victim

Answer 4

person who fears for their own safety, is in the danger zone - page v smith

Question 5

2 stages for primary victim

Answer 5

1 does not have to show the injury was forseeable
2 does not have to be of normal fortitude

Question 6

2 stages for primary victim

Answer 6

1 psychiatric injury doesn’t have to be forseeable
2 does not have to be of normal fortitude

Question 7

secondary victims

Answer 7

alcock v chief constable , a person who is witness to traumatic events, not in the danger zone

Question 8

alcock control mechanisms

Answer 8

-love- close ties of affection
-witness - aftermath or incident mcloullin v obrien
-must have directly witnessed the event
- connection between event and injury