Psychiatric Injury

1. Why could C not recover for her

psychiatric injuries in Calascione v Dixon?
What does this tell us about causation in
such cases?

2. What does Frost v Chief Constable of South

Yorkshire Police tell us about psychiatric
injury?

3. Why were the claimants unable to

recover for psychiatric injury in Reilly v
Merseyside Regional Health Authority?

4. What is meant by a “primary victim”? Give

a case example to support your answer.

5. When is a rescuer a primary victim?

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6. Who will fall into the category of
secondary victims?

7. Why have the courts limited those who

can claim as secondary victims?

8. What are the three key limits on those

who are owed a duty of care as secondary
victims?

9. How did the decision in McLoughlin v

O’Brien extend the scope of secondary
victims who could claim proximity to the
accident?

10. Why did the court decide that C had

proximity in Galli-Atkinson v Seghal?

11. Once the three key criteria in Alcock are

satisfied, what two other requirements
must a secondary victim satisfy?

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