/Annots [163 0 R 164 0 R 165 0 R] >> /Dest endobj /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 168 460 142] /Rotate 0 >> << 2018-02-21T19:08:17+05:01 >> << << << /ModDate (D:20201221195449+00'00') /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 133 460 107] /Contents [175 0 R 176 0 R 177 0 R] << Then, a secondary victim must prove that they fall within a class of people that the law allows to claim compensation for such injuries. >> endobj >> endobj more than a passive and unwilling witness of injury caused to others’: Lord Oliver in. << << endobj >> endobj 96 0 obj /Prev 14 0 R 7 Bedford Row | Personal Injury Law Journal | July/August 2017 #157. Lord Bridge suggested that reasonable foreseeability of the pursuer suffering harm should be enough to establish liability. /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 654 560 628] There was nothing sudden or unexpected about being ushered in to see his wife and finding her connected to medical equipment. 79 0 R 80 0 R 81 0 R 82 0 R 83 0 R 37 0 obj endobj >> 18 0 obj It is a bit difficult to begin with when the plaintiff himself is neither physically injured nor threatened with injury but can suffer psychological illness and claim for compensation. /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 741 560 715] /Parent 11 0 R There is uncertainty as to how close a secondary victim must be to the accident. This idea has been in contemplation largely since the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 where secondary victims could claim, where they found to have suffered ‘nervous shock’, having directly witnessed the death or injury of a close family member or friend (a primary victim). >> Start studying Psychiatric Damage. endobj S2056467817000160jra 110..122 endobj >> /Parent 10 0 R 80 0 obj >> /Rotate 0 endobj endobj (A) Relatives and friends. >> /Border [0 0 0] >> 88 0 obj /Next 15 0 R /Annots [170 0 R 171 0 R 172 0 R 173 0 R 174 0 R] Prior to the 2013 Court of Appeal decision in Taylor v Novo, it was very difficult to reconcile the various decisions in the years since the seminal Hillsborough cases. /Type /Pages It is important to recall its facts, which were extreme (Box 2). Mr Ronayne sustained a psychiatric injury from the shock of his seriously ill wife’s appearance in hospital. >> 15 0 obj >> /Resources 169 0 R In the Case of Alcock vs Chief Constable of South Yorkmshire Police [10] there was an endorsement in the Mcloughlin rule, in this case Hillsborough Football stadium was over crowded during FA cup. 95 0 obj /Border [0 0 0] << /Title 59 0 obj endobj Our opening hours are 9am - 5pm across all offices. A primary victim does not owe a duty of care to a secondary victim in relation to self-inflicted harm: Greatorex v Greatorex [2001] ... McLoughlin v O'Brian [1982] 2 WLR 982 Case summary . endstream >> >> /Title These cases established that secondary victims could only claim for psychiatric injury in very limited circumstances, and White confirms these limitations. /First 85 0 R /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 578 350 552] 21 Dec 2020 at 19:54:49, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use. endobj Consequently the secondary victim suffers nervous shock (psychological injury). It has now ruled that an earlier judgment was wrong to strike out secondary victim claims from young children who witnessed their father die after he was allegedly a victim of clinical negligence. >> >> << 74 0 R 75 0 R 76 0 R 77 0 R 78 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] There has been a much more consistent thread of principle through the decisions since Taylor v Novo. /Names 2 0 R >> /Annots [146 0 R 147 0 R 148 0 R 149 0 R] /Type /Catalog This is notwithstanding that the Court of Appeal held that this was an appalling sequence of events which caused profound distress to Mr Ronayne, for which they had profound sympathy and which caused psychiatric illness. Caparo test - Page v Smith (1996) Is personal injury foreseeable? 9 0 obj 17 0 obj 67 0 obj << endobj endobj /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 604 350 578] 29 0 obj >> /D [22 0 R /FitR 347 441 560 427] Tort la… /Type /Page endobj endobj >> In the Case of Alcock vs Chief Constable of South Yorkmshire Police [10] there was an endorsement in the Mcloughlin rule, in this case Hillsborough Football stadium was over crowded during FA cup. A secondary victim is one who suffers psychiatric injury not by being directly involved in the incident but by witnessing it and either: • seeing injury being sustained by a primary victim, or • fearing injury to a primary victim. /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 687 350 661] /Rect [459.439 184.365 462.444 192.416] endobj /Title /Dest /Rect [244.913 190.261 262.488 198.255] >> endobj Secondary victim = someone who witnesses an accident which results in there being an injury, or fear of injury, to the primary victim. /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] /Contents [96 0 R 97 0 R 98 0 R 99 0 R 100 0 R 101 0 R 102 0 R 103 0 R 104 0 R 105 0 R] 21 0 obj >> Who has a case in liability – identify the victims 2. << Secondary victims are those not within the physical zone of danger but witnesses of horrific events. McLoughlin v O'Brian - secondary victim - suffered psychiatric injury as result of concern for her family from witnessing a shocking event. >> /Type /Page In Frost v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [1999] 2 AC 455, both Lord Steyn and Lord Hoffman confined the principle in Page to those who were within the range of foreseeable physical injury. /Filter /FlateDecode endobj Before we consider who is a secondary victim there are two rules that have to be taken into account. /Annots [119 0 R 120 0 R 121 0 R 122 0 R 123 0 R 124 0 R 125 0 R 126 0 R] /Annots [202 0 R 203 0 R 204 0 R 205 0 R 206 0 R] A "secondary victim" is a person who suffers nervous shock without himself being exposed to danger. Fault or negligence is an important issue in tort law and tort law is fault oriented. endobj /Subtype /Link endobj stream 69 0 obj >> /Contents [166 0 R 167 0 R 168 0 R] /Annots [187 0 R 188 0 R 189 0 R 190 0 R] Her arms, legs and face were very swollen. /Dest 26 0 obj Secondary Victim – Alcock and others v Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police [ … McLoughlin v O’Brian was not without its critics and it did not entirely settle the question of whether secondary victims were entitled to sue for psychiatric injury. endobj endobj /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 593 560 567] >> /D [25 0 R /FitR 247 515 460 499] >> /Border [0 0 0] >> /Contents [150 0 R 151 0 R 152 0 R] endobj /Parent 10 0 R endobj >> /Parent 9 0 R /Title The husband of the claimant (C) and their children were involved in a road traffic accident at around 4 p.m. with a lorry driven by the first defendant and owned by the second defendant. /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 693 560 667] McLoughlin v O’Brian [1983] 1 AC 410. /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] A secondary victim is one who suffers psychiatric injury as a consequence of witnessing or being informed of an accident, which involves another. /D [21 0 R /FitR 37 577 250 563] /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 652 350 626] o McLoughlin v O'Brian laid down criteria by which claim by secondary victim could be assessed, while opposing expansion HoL adopted and approved McLoughlin criteria in decision of Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [1991] 4 All ER 907 which is leading case in regard to secondary victims /Type /Page endobj endobj << >> >> /Pages 5 0 R /Contents [127 0 R 128 0 R 129 0 R] 4 0 obj You can learn more detailed information in our Privacy Policy. /Annots [89 0 R 90 0 R 91 0 R 92 0 R 93 0 R 94 0 R 95 0 R] In addition, the << /D [24 0 R /FitR 137 141 350 126] A secondary victim is one who suffers psychiatric injury as a consequence of witnessing or being informed of an accident, which involves another. << endobj /Type /Page /Contents [213 0 R 214 0 R 215 0 R] << endobj endobj >> It is a judicial proceeding, developed through case law in which the rules of evidence apply. /Type /Annot /Rotate 0 << 11 0 obj Click here for a full list of Google Analytics cookies used on this site. endobj << The position of primary victim is governed by the decision in Page v Smith wherein a claimant may recover for psychiatric harm even though the threatened physical harm does not materialize. /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] << /D [23 0 R /FitR 37 749 250 735] /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 700 350 674] >> endobj /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 641 560 615] the passive and unwilling witnesses of injury, or of the threat of it, to others – seek compensation through the courts for the psychiatric injuries that they have suffered (traditionally but confusingly referred to as ‘nervous shock’ claims), there would in theory be the potential for a virtually limitless number of claims. << /Resources 201 0 R << /Rotate 0 73 0 obj 22 0 obj /D [16 0 R /FitR 28 342 145 315] 31 0 obj Secondary victims. /Dest Tort law protects the interests of the individual and adjudicates private wrongs. %PDF-1.3 << >> >> << /Count 3 Among them there are groups of people who suffered psychiatric injury as a result of witnessing the death or injury of friends, relatives or work colleagues; those whose psychiatric injury ha… >> /First 14 0 R /Last 9 0 R endobj << /Annots [179 0 R 180 0 R 181 0 R 182 0 R] 53 0 obj << The so-called ‘control mechanisms’ from McLoughlin v O’Brian [1983] 1 A.C. 410 and Alcock v Chief Constable South Yorkshire Police [1992] A.C. 310 are additional criteria keeping the gates to successful claims for secondary victims. /Names [ 29 0 R 30 0 R 31 0 R 32 0 R 33 0 R A secondary victim is the one who suffers psychiatric injury as a result of witnessing or being informed about an accident which involves another. uuid:dc887acd-67e3-4fd8-a6e7-8c7cbddfc837 The circumstances in the Ronayne case fell ‘far short’ of those in which it has been recognised by the law as founding secondary victim liability. 19 0 obj /Contents [115 0 R 116 0 R 117 0 R] 57 0 obj << 44 0 R 45 0 R 46 0 R 47 0 R 48 0 R endobj /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 713 350 687] >> endobj 77 0 obj /Count -6 The House of Lords decision in McLoughlin v O’Brien AC 410, where a ‘hospital visit’ secondary victim claim by a mother visiting her husband and children injured in a car accident succeeded, is best understood as being a case where the claimant, although arriving in the aftermath, came upon the accident, albeit transposed into the setting of the hospital. /PageLabels 6 0 R /Border [0 0 0] /Next 217 0 R 1 0 obj /Annots [211 0 R 212 0 R] /Type /Pages /Title (S2056467817000160jra 110..122) >> /D [16 0 R /FitR 347 260 560 244] 25 0 obj 64 0 obj endobj For more details see our Privacy Policy, Dutton Gregory LLP Solicitors is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Number:496960. Primary victims must be in the danger zone (Page v Smith [1996] 1 AC 155). >> The significance of this point lies in the judgment of Lord Bridge in this same case: VAT number: 188 0564 36. 54 0 obj << /Count 10 The reaction of most people of ordinary robustness would surely be one of relief that the matter was in the hands of medical professionals with perhaps a grateful nod to the ready availability of modern medical equipment. View all articles and reports associated with McLoughlin v O Brian [1982] UKHL 3. /Parent 9 0 R Primary victims are simpler to distinguish in comparison to secondary victims. endobj /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] << Many secondary victims may fail at this hurdle, due to its dangerous vagueness and unpredictability. << Key points from the Court of Appeal judgment (which overturned the award of compensation to Mr Ronayne made by an experienced clinical negligence trial Judge) were: To establish a secondary victim claim it is necessary to establish that the relevant ‘shocking event’ was a) exceptional b) sudden and c) horrifying. ⇒ Such 'secondary victim' claims were first recognised in Hambrook v Stokes ⇒ The case of McLoughlin v O’Brian shows an extension of who can be a secondary victim → the case dictated that a defendant owed a claimant a duty of care despite the psychiatric illness occuring over two hours after the initial injury by the defendant << An example of this is a spectator at a car race, who witnesses a terrible crash caused by negligence on the part of the car manufacturers and … /Resources 153 0 R endobj He described his shock at her looking like ‘the Michelin Man’. 48 0 obj /D [16 0 R /FitR 0 842 596 0] >> The House of Lords decision in McLoughlin v O’Brien [1983] AC 410, where a ‘hospital visit’ secondary victim claim by a mother visiting her husband and children injured in a car accident succeeded, is best understood as being a case where the Claimant, although arriving in the aftermath, came upon the accident, albeit transposed into the setting of the hospital. 81 0 obj The Court of Appeal Judges found that unsurprising. endobj 55. << View all articles and reports associated with McLoughlin v O Brian [1982] UKHL 3 ... Brenna Conroy outlines the distinction between appreciation of an accident and witnessing a victim’s injuries for secondary victim claims. ⇒ Such 'secondary victim' claims were first recognised in Hambrook v Stokes ⇒ The case of McLoughlin v O’Brian shows an extension of who can be a secondary victim → the case dictated that a defendant owed a claimant a duty of care despite the psychiatric illness occuring over two hours after the initial injury by the defendant /Parent 14 0 R 65 0 obj /Parent 10 0 R >> >> Primary Victim – Paige v Smith 1995 b. /Rect [312.718 102.501 330.35 110.495] She had undergone a hysterectomy and a few days after discharge she became unwell and was admitted to A&E. /Parent 10 0 R << << endobj /Type /Annot The House of Lords decision in McLoughlin v O’Brien AC 410, where a ‘hospital visit’ secondary victim claim by a mother visiting her husband and children injured in a car accident succeeded, is best understood as being a case where the Claimant, although arriving in the aftermath, came upon the accident, albeit transposed into the setting of the hospital. /Type /Page /Type /Annot This latest appeal builds on the series of reported cases since December 2014. After surgery he saw her unconscious, connected to a ventilator and being administered four types of antibiotic intravenously. >> /Subtype /Link 87 0 obj The issues that lie here, and I will be looking in greater detail, are the primary and secondary victims that have to be established before any claim for damages can be done. Case: McLoughlin v O Brian [1982] UKHL 3. << /D [18 0 R /FitR 137 540 350 525] 75 0 obj >> They all highlight the strictness of the control mechanisms and the difficulties for Claimants in establishing such claims. << secondary victim: must show psychiatric damage was objectively, reasonably foreseeable (person of normal fortitude in C's position would suffer psychiatric damage), if test satisfied duty of care established & C may then rely on egg shell rule if suffers psychiatric damage greater … We use the word "partner" to refer to a member of the LLP, or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications. /Last 87 0 R /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 591 350 565] >> /A 223 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] 79 0 obj endobj uuid:9a691764-353a-4318-b559-7df4e14e950f 84 0 obj 2 0 obj /Border [0 0 0] /Type /Page The line of cases extends to the leading decisions of recent times on secondary victim liability, such as McLoughlin v O’Brian7in the House of Lords in 1982 and Jaensch v Coffey8in the Australian High Court in … >> endobj /Parent 9 0 R /D [19 0 R /FitR 37 575 250 560] /Contents [191 0 R 192 0 R 193 0 R] /Type /Page Goss J was of the opinion that DE (who was present at the time of injury) had to be classed as a secondary victim. >> /Kids [16 0 R 17 0 R 18 0 R 19 0 R 20 0 R 21 0 R 22 0 R 23 0 R 24 0 R 25 0 R] One of the leading secondary victim cases is that of McLoughlin. 78 0 obj >> >> What constitutes immediate aftermath is decided on the particular facts of the case: These cookies enable core website functionality, and can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences. << 97 0 obj the settling of cases by the NHSLA, you could happily ‘piggyback’ a claim by a secondary victim on that for the primary victim. /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 212 460 186] << >> 33 0 obj /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 667 560 641] /Parent 14 0 R >> /Length 1688 /Type /Annot /Parent 10 0 R << >> << /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] In McLoughlin v O'Brien [1983] 1 A.C. 410, Mrs McLoughlin was telephoned to say her husband and children were on their way to hospital following an accident. /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] << /Kids [10 0 R 11 0 R] The four possible classes are as discussed below. This was in addition to the already stringent constraints put in place by McLoughlin v O’Brian [1983]. 43 0 obj /Rotate 0 Following the case of Alcock [1992], a defendant can be liable to secondary victims who were caused psychiatric illness if it was foreseeable that such an injury would be caused. 2020-12-21T19:54:49+00:00 ... is also a requirement that that the claimant must have had a close personal or familial relationship with the accident victim. /Type /Annot Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 10.0.1465/W Unicode /Type /Page 63 0 obj << McLoughlin v O'Brian [1982] 2 All ER 298 (mother). To control which cookies are set, click Settings. endobj 6 0 obj Not for further distribution unless allowed by the License or with the express written permission of Cambridge University Press. /Filter /FlateDecode << by secondary victims, sudden shock on witnessing the damage-causing event was incorporated as a key element of the claim.8 The need to link the relevant psychiatric injury to a sudden shock was implicitly affirmed in the seminal secondary victim case of McLoughlin v. 0'Brian,9 in which the House of Lords allowed a claim for Google Analytics cookies help us to understand your experience of the website and do not store any personal data. /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] << One of the leading secondary victim cases is that of McLoughlin. << claimant's (C) who suffer psychiatric damage (nervous shock) can claim in Negligence, rules refined to take account of special nature of damage They have drawn a distinction between 'secondary' and 'primary' victims. endobj 44 0 obj >> >> /Subtype /Link /Parent 10 0 R << >> The first test is to have love and affection with an immediate victim of the incident. >> /Annots [107 0 R 108 0 R 109 0 R 110 0 R 111 0 R 112 0 R 113 0 R 114 0 R] >> >> by secondary victims, sudden shock on witnessing the damage-causing event was incorporated as a key element of the claim.8 The need to link the relevant psychiatric injury to a sudden shock was implicitly affirmed in the seminal secondary victim case of McLoughlin v. 0'Brian,9 in which the House of Lords allowed a claim for /Subtype /Link /Resources 145 0 R 90 0 obj << Brenna Conroy outlines the distinction between appreciation of an accident and witnessing a victim’s injuries for secondary victim claims ‘One of the key themes that emerges from recent authorities is that a secondary victim claim will fail where the primary victim has received treatment such as to make that scene sufficiently different to that at … /Type /Pages These two rules apply regardless whether a person is a primary or a secondary victim. << /Length 10 The decision in Ronayne arguably renders more strict, the control mechanisms for secondary victim claims which were shaped by the earlier seminal House of Lords decisions arising out of the Hillsborough disaster, particularly Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police, 1992. << /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 754 560 728] >> A secondary victim is the one who suffers psychiatric injury as a result of witnessing or being informed about an accident which involves another. So the first and foremost rule is that a claim in psychiatric harm … As Lord Wilberforce commented, these circumstances were capable of producing an effect going well beyond that of grief and sorrow. >> endobj 3) Close tie of love and affection with victim and witnessed unaided the incident or its immediate aftermath (secondary) - McLoughlin v O'Brien (1981); 4) Claimant proves close tie with the victim and witnessed close-ups of the victim on TV in breach of broadcasting rules (secondary… Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. /D [25 0 R /FitR 37 117 250 102] /Type /Annot Indeed, the author is not aware of any reported secondary victim claim which has succeeded since the Court of Appeal clarified the law in Taylor v Novo in 2013, a decision which itself overturned a trial judge’s award of compensation in such a case. /Dests 8 0 R << >> >> It was not exceptional. If not, you are a secondary victim and must satisfy a control test (Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [1992] 1 AC 310). 40 0 obj Click here for a full list of third-party plugins used on this site. The probable limit of this is in McLoughlin v O’Brian. /Rect [36 385.228 92.466 392.712] << /Rotate 0 >> /Type /Page /D [27 0 R /FitR 37 250 250 234] Secondary victims must demonstrate the four Alcock criteria are present in order to establish liability: 1. Registered office: Concept House, 6 Stoneycroft Rise, Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh, SO53 3LD Registered number: OC336055. 59 0 R 60 0 R 61 0 R 62 0 R 63 0 R Not for further distribution unless allowed by the License or with the express written permission of Cambridge University Press. In McLoughlin, Lord Wilberforce was persuaded that some special limitations had to be imposed to control liability to the class of persons we have now come to describe as secondary victims. endobj >> McLoughlin v O'Brian [1983] 1 AC House of Lords. 55 0 obj /Type /Page 49 0 R 50 0 R 51 0 R 52 0 R 53 0 R endobj Removing or resetting your browser cookies will reset these preferences. /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 680 560 654] 30 0 obj << /Producer (Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 \(Windows\)) /Nums [0 12 0 R] Whether an event was sufficiently horrifying must be judged by objective standards and by reference to persons of ordinary susceptibility, not by examining the Claimant’s medical knowledge and its effect upon the particular reaction of the individual concerned. A visitor is to a degree conditioned as to what to expect and it is likely that due warning will be given by medical staff of an impending encounter likely to prove more than ordinarily distressing. endobj /Length 1042 >> 46 0 obj /Parent 10 0 R 54 0 R 55 0 R 56 0 R 57 0 R 58 0 R /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 728 560 702] When the secondary victim suffers a nervous shock and satisfy the three factors of Mcloughlin's case. 49 0 obj /Parent 11 0 R /Parent 11 0 R 91 0 obj >> /Parent 9 0 R >> endobj 39 0 obj endstream 21 Dec 2020 at 19:54:49, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use. /URI (mailto:keith.rix@nsft.nhs.uk) /Type /Metadata /Annots [131 0 R 132 0 R 133 0 R 134 0 R 135 0 R 136 0 R 137 0 R 138 0 R 139 0 R 140 0 R endobj /Prev 88 0 R A secondary victim suffers psychiatric harm in circumstances where he is ‘no. << /Parent 10 0 R We use cookies to optimise site functionality and give you the best possible experience. >> 58 0 obj /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 190 460 164] endobj 92 0 obj When those whom the law terms ‘secondary victims’ – i.e. Secondly, the secondary victim must be both close in terms of ‘spatial and temporal proximity’ (translation: same time, same place.) /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 639 350 613] 10 0 obj The inquest into the death of Kirra-Lea McLoughlin has heard the Queensland woman's de facto partner confessed to attacking the 27-year-old on the same night she was fatally injured. /Resources 210 0 R If you want further information about this particular topic, or wish to discuss the possibility of bringing a claim for Clinical Negligence - or indeed any other type of injury, please contact the Dutton Gregory Clinical Negligence Team on (01202) 315005, or email k.marden@duttongregory.co.uk. H‰„UMÛ6½ëWèTÐÁŠËOIì­Ý"-ZäÐÄEPlrÐÊôŠ‰,¹¢d× ÷æÐßÛR¶å$hwÕŒ4óøfæ ÷þÁ—iíSžúºKî|ÃÓgŸðÔ¥Éð’Á/O¹Ò”‰4g‚êÒ¤õ.¼ß%ÜhjÊì6ت(Ҍj.UZíí‹äךTœ2V~ ÇÒLj 'rÁ‡ž_üÿÊP‹+`¶$-U1ÔWáæj¿@cé•](ïJ.¸°ï×ÉýK@J×ÛD”@ŽEð³`*-„ Ì*]#þºÆ?Çä‘üÔW™(-ˆoúú£ëž¿…%§†Ôýno;_ðrõ~ý3öSnò. >> approach to secondary victims. >> We are here to help, just fill out the form below with your enquiry and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible, We’ll only use this information to handle your enquiry and we won’t share it with any third parties. • Secondary victims are claimants who suffer psychological ... (McLoughlin v Jones [2002] 2 WLR 1279; Farley v Skinner [2002] 2 AC 732) ... • Proof that C is a primary or secondary victim, or that C falls into a special category of claimants entitled to bring a claim for The difficulty for the pursuer was that she was clearly a secondary victim and the law relating to psychiatric injuries was quite clear – only primary victims could be granted compensation for the psychiatric injuries that they had suffered as a result of the defender’s negligence. >> 36 0 obj As Lord Wilberforce commented, these circumstances were capable of producing an effect going well beyond that of grief and sorrow. 72 0 obj The claimant’s husband and three of her children were involved in a serious road traffic accident in which their car was struck by a lorry due to the negligence of the defendant lorry driver. /Parent 5 0 R /Parent 3 0 R 52 0 obj /Creator (Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 10.0.1465/W Unicode) << Secondary victims. Secondary victims These are people who are not primary victims of the incident but who are able to show a close enough tie of love and affection to a victim of the incident and who witnessed the incident or its ‘immediate aftermath’ at close hand. /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] /Resources 130 0 R /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 433 460 418] >> /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 146 460 120] Facts. NEGLIGENCE – PSYCHIATRIC DAMAGE – FORESEEABILITY – IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF TRAUMATIC EVENT. /Last 15 0 R /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 267 460 251] At each stage, Mr Ronayne was conditioned for what he was about to see and that his wife’s life was in danger. /Type /Page << endobj << /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] endobj << 93 0 obj 14 0 obj /Contents [183 0 R 184 0 R 185 0 R] << Identify appropriate test to establish duty. endobj /Dest << << << Third-Party cookies are set by our partners and help us to improve your experience of the website. 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