Consequently the secondary victim suffers nervous shock (psychological injury). >> >> >> /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 604 350 578] >> At each stage, Mr Ronayne was conditioned for what he was about to see and that his wife’s life was in danger. /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 267 460 251] << McLoughlin v O'Brian - secondary victim - suffered psychiatric injury as result of concern for her family from witnessing a shocking event. 20 0 obj /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 578 350 552] endobj In addition, the The House of Lords decision in McLoughlin v OâBrien AC 410, where a âhospital visitâ 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. Is the injury a recognisable psychiatric injury - Reiley v Myerside 1995 / Attia v British Gas 1998 3. /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 168 460 142] /First 85 0 R >> 67 0 obj In Mcloughlin the mother raced to the hospital after hearing her family had been in a motor vehicle collision. Psychiatric Injury: Victims of circumstance. /D [22 0 R /FitR 347 441 560 427] Tort law protects the interests of the individual and adjudicates private wrongs. The signiï¬cance of this point lies in the judgment of Lord Bridge in this same case: 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. >> View all articles and reports associated with McLoughlin v O Brian [1982] UKHL 3. /D [25 0 R /FitR 37 117 250 102] /Rect [69.804 15.849609 162.582 23.774414] endobj /Type /Annot << Mr Ronayne sustained a psychiatric injury from the shock of his seriously ill wife’s appearance in hospital. >> Then there have been accidents of greater magnitude, often featuring prominently in the leading endobj >> stream
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Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 (Windows) /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 133 460 107] 34 0 R 35 0 R 36 0 R 37 0 R 38 0 R There has been a much more consistent thread of principle through the decisions since Taylor v Novo. endobj << /Parent 14 0 R /Type /Annot 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⦠2018-02-21T19:08:17+05:01 52 0 obj /Contents [183 0 R 184 0 R 185 0 R] ... secondary victims as laid down by the House of Lords and its significance for the determination of liability in nervous shock cases. endobj a. << /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] 93 0 obj endobj This was in addition to the already stringent constraints put in place by McLoughlin v OâBrian [1983]. Third-Party cookies are set by our partners and help us to improve your experience of the website. << /Rect [504.397 389.82 524.239 398.835] << /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 674 350 648] 71 0 obj Her arms, legs and face were very swollen. 69 0 R 70 0 R 71 0 R 72 0 R 73 0 R endobj >> /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 641 560 615] endobj 63 0 obj /Dest /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 35 0 obj â Such 'secondary victim' claims were first recognised in Hambrook v Stokes â The case of McLoughlin v OâBrian shows an extension of who can be a secondary victim â 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 34 0 obj 30 0 obj /Last 87 0 R >> 74 0 R 75 0 R 76 0 R 77 0 R 78 0 R When the secondary victim suffers a nervous shock and satisfy the three factors of Mcloughlin's case. << 49 0 R 50 0 R 51 0 R 52 0 R 53 0 R 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. >> 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. endobj - Whilst bystanders who came upon a serious /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] 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 /Type /Page << Case: McLoughlin v O Brian [1982] UKHL 3. /Type /Annot << /Rect [459.439 184.365 462.444 192.416] << >> /Parent 10 0 R 97 0 obj When the secondary victim suffers a nervous shock and satisfy the three factors of Mcloughlin's case. << /Title Not for further distribution unless allowed by the License or with the express written permission of Cambridge University Press. /First 218 0 R 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. /Rotate 0 the settling of cases by the NHSLA, you could happily âpiggybackâ a claim by a secondary victim on that for the primary victim. McLoughlin v O'Brian [1982] 2 All ER 298 (mother). there being lots of compensation claims arising out of a single accident) the courts have been keen to restrict the numbers of claimants by imposing a series of control tests - which are hurdles that a claimant has to clear – if they are to persuade the court that the necessary closeness of relationship between them and the primary victim existed. endobj endobj /D [16 0 R /FitR 0 842 596 0] /ModDate (D:20201221195449+00'00') >> 59 0 R 60 0 R 61 0 R 62 0 R 63 0 R /Metadata 4 0 R /Prev 14 0 R /Rotate 0 >> /D [20 0 R /FitR 347 749 560 735] endobj /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] Secondary victims. /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] /D [19 0 R /FitR 37 575 250 560] Because of the potential for ‘opening the floodgates’ (i.e. /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 667 560 641] 3 0 obj 19 0 obj 32 0 obj endobj 46 0 obj endobj endobj /Border [0 0 0] /Next 217 0 R There is uncertainty as to how close a secondary victim must be to the accident. >> 21 Dec 2020 at 19:54:49, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use. /Parent 10 0 R /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] /PageLabels 6 0 R 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 ⦠64 0 R 65 0 R 66 0 R 67 0 R 68 0 R recent times on secondary victim liability, such as McLoughlin v OâBrian7 in the House of Lords in 1982 and Jaensch v Coffey8 in the Australian High Court in 1984. /Last 15 0 R Click here for a full list of third-party plugins used on this site. endobj >> /Dest 14 0 obj 42 0 obj endobj >> It is a judicial proceeding, developed through case law in which the rules of evidence apply. endobj 51 0 obj >> endobj /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] << (A) Relatives and friends. 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. /Rect [244.913 190.261 262.488 198.255] 1 0 obj /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 706 560 680] << /Dest /Contents [191 0 R 192 0 R 193 0 R] %PDF-1.3 << /Resources 153 0 R 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. endobj >> >> 27 0 obj These two rules apply regardless whether a person is a primary or a secondary victim. >> Identify appropriate test to establish duty. 6 0 obj endobj âIn the case of mental shock⦠there are elements of greater subtlety than in the case of an ordinary physical injury and these elements may give rise to debate as to the precise scope of legal liabilityâ Bourhill v Young[i][1943], per Lord Macmillan. /Title << 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⦠/Border [0 0 0] >> >> << endobj >> >> >> /Annots [195 0 R 196 0 R 197 0 R] She had undergone a hysterectomy and a few days after discharge she became unwell and was admitted to A&E. 90 0 obj << The issue in this case rested on proximity and Lord Wilberforce set out the appropriate proximity limits in 'secondary victim' cases (i.e. endobj /Annots [187 0 R 188 0 R 189 0 R 190 0 R] << endobj 4 0 obj >> For more details see our Privacy Policy, Dutton Gregory LLP Solicitors is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Number:496960. /Resources 210 0 R endobj They have drawn a distinction between 'secondary' and 'primary' victims. claimant's (C) who suffer psychiatric damage (nervous shock) can claim in Negligence, rules refined to take account of special nature of damage >> /Rotate 0 >> 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. 16 0 obj >> endobj << /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 146 460 120] endobj /Type /Page /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 433 460 418] /D [17 0 R /FitR 247 684 460 669] /Type /Page >> The fine line appears more towards the secondary victims when trying to claim for psychiatric injuries that happened to that individual. /Contents [159 0 R 160 0 R 161 0 R] /Type /Metadata /Subtype /Link 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. 23 0 obj << /Title << 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. << 24 0 obj endobj 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 âimmediate aftermathâ at close hand. endobj << Not for further distribution unless allowed by the License or with the express written permission of Cambridge University Press. 55 0 obj << 58 0 obj /D [23 0 R /FitR 37 749 250 735] What constitutes immediate aftermath is decided on the particular facts of the case: /A 223 0 R /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] /First 9 0 R /Parent 11 0 R ⢠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 Primary victims must be in the danger zone (Page v Smith [1996] 1 AC 155). /Count -6 /Nums [0 12 0 R] This resulted in LE being able to sidestep the draconian control measures imposed by Mcloughlin v OâBrian [1982] and Alcock. /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] 62 0 obj << As Lord Wilberforce commented, these circumstances were capable of producing an effect going well beyond that of grief and sorrow. In other words, there must be at least a rough correlation between the harm done to the primary victim and the secondary victimâs experience of the harm. endobj /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 234 460 208] The claimantâs 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. application/pdf endobj << Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. /Contents [166 0 R 167 0 R 168 0 R] >> He described his shock at her looking like ‘the Michelin Man’. /D [24 0 R /FitR 137 141 350 126] >> 28 0 obj endobj 55. 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. The so-called âcontrol mechanismsâ from McLoughlin v OâBrian [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. << >> Many secondary victims may fail at this hurdle, due to its dangerous vagueness and unpredictability. /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 652 350 626] 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. /CreationDate (D:20180221190817+05'30') /Count 3 endobj >> 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 . endobj /URI (mailto:keith.rix@nsft.nhs.uk) << 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. McLoughlin v OâBrian 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 ⦠endobj >> /Rotate 0 48 0 obj 37 0 obj /Type /Page endobj endobj >> /Rotate 0 12 0 obj /Contents [150 0 R 151 0 R 152 0 R] >> >> /Parent 10 0 R >> << /Type /Annot /Type /Catalog >> 36 0 obj 54 0 R 55 0 R 56 0 R 57 0 R 58 0 R 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. >> endobj /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 739 350 713] << /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 628 560 602] endobj << /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] You can learn more detailed information in our Privacy Policy. McLoughlin v OâBrian [1983] 1 AC. /Length 1688 >> 40 0 obj What type of victim are they? A secondary victim is the one who suffers psychiatric injury as a result of witnessing or being informed about an accident which involves another. 75 0 obj /Annots [202 0 R 203 0 R 204 0 R 205 0 R 206 0 R] /Rect [312.718 102.501 330.35 110.495] /Prev 221 0 R endobj /Limits [ ] /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] << /Filter /FlateDecode Continue Reading. 45 0 obj >> /Pages 5 0 R Shortly before she underwent emergency surgery for septicaemia, Mr Ronayne saw his wife connected to various machines including drips and monitors. /Rotate 0 The control mechanisms appropriate in secondary victim cases, specific proximity and foreseeability in a person of 'ordinary phlegm', did not apply. /Last 220 0 R x+ä î |
/A << << /Count -7 >> endobj 72 0 obj /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] Primary Victim â Paige v Smith 1995 b. Secondary victims must demonstrate the four Alcock criteria are present in order to establish liability: 1. /Type /Page 41 0 obj McLoughlin v OâBrian [1983] 1 AC 410. endobj ... is also a requirement that that the claimant must have had a close personal or familial relationship with the accident victim. /Parent 11 0 R /Annots [89 0 R 90 0 R 91 0 R 92 0 R 93 0 R 94 0 R 95 0 R] 87 0 obj << So the first and foremost rule is that a claim in psychiatric harm ⦠/Parent 10 0 R >> 31 0 obj /Type /Annot 9 0 obj /Type /Page /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] endobj 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. 57 0 obj McLoughlin v OâBrian was not without its critics and it did not entirely settle the question of whether secondary victims were entitled to sue for psychiatric injury. >> 76 0 obj approach to secondary victims. 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⦠Then, a secondary victim must prove that they fall within a class of people that the law allows to claim compensation for such injuries. >> /Last 9 0 R /Contents [127 0 R 128 0 R 129 0 R] 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 [27 0 R /FitR 247 212 460 186] /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 728 560 702] 73 0 obj /Dest Secondly, the secondary victim must be both close in terms of âspatial and temporal proximityâ (translation: same time, same place.) << After surgery he saw her unconscious, connected to a ventilator and being administered four types of antibiotic intravenously. endobj In hospital you must expect to see things that you may not like, such as patients connected to machines and drips. endobj /Kids [26 0 R 27 0 R 28 0 R] endobj /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 256 460 230] /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] /Parent 5 0 R Registered office: Concept House, 6 Stoneycroft Rise, Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh, SO53 3LD Registered number: OC336055. << >> /Subtype /Link << endobj It was later discovered that a misplaced suture in her colon had caused complications. /Parent 14 0 R >> /Resources 169 0 R 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. /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] endobj The first test is to have love and affection with an immediate victim of the incident. /Dest endobj It was not exceptional. S2056467817000160jra 110..122 56 0 obj NEGLIGENCE â PSYCHIATRIC DAMAGE â FORESEEABILITY â IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF TRAUMATIC EVENT. A "secondary victim" is a person who suffers nervous shock without himself being exposed to danger. what proximity is required between the defendant and the claimant to demonstrate there is a duty of care owed): 13 0 obj >> 82 0 obj >> << /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] Your choice regarding cookies on this site, A Message From Our Property Team - November 2020, Call for Stamp Duty Extension - A Solicitor's Perspective, What to expect when you're expecting... to go to court, Removing outdated restrictive covenants from your title, Surrogacy and Parental Orders - A Guide for the Modern Family. << /Count 1 21 Dec 2020 at 19:54:49, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use. /Next 219 0 R 141 0 R] /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] There was only one previous reported case in which a Claimant had succeeded in a secondary victim claim in consequence of observing the consequences of clinical negligence in a hospital environment. /Prev 88 0 R uuid:9a691764-353a-4318-b559-7df4e14e950f stream
endobj /Resources 130 0 R 2 0 obj << endobj /Title /Resources 186 0 R 79 0 R 80 0 R 81 0 R 82 0 R 83 0 R /D [17 0 R /FitR 37 393 250 378] /Dest >> /Resources 178 0 R << 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. /Title << << /Producer (Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 \(Windows\)) The line of cases extends to the leading decisions of recent times on secondary victim liability, such as McLoughlin v OâBrian7in the House of Lords in 1982 and Jaensch v Coffey8in the Australian High Court in ⦠15 0 obj 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. VAT number: 188 0564 36. /Filter /FlateDecode >> /Dest << /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 606 560 580] /Annots [170 0 R 171 0 R 172 0 R 173 0 R 174 0 R] This was not a horrifying event by objective standards as the appearance of Mr Ronayne’s wife was as would ordinarily be expected of a person in hospital in the circumstances in which she found herself. << /Type /Page A secondary victim is one who suffers psychiatric injury as a consequence of witnessing or being informed of an accident, which involves another. 70 0 obj 53 0 obj << more than a passive and unwilling witness of injury caused to othersâ: Lord Oliver in. 39 0 obj /Dest /D [23 0 R /FitR 37 580 250 565] 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. >> << endobj Clicking the Accept All button means you are accepting analytics and third-party cookies (check the full list). For further guidance, see Practice Note: Psychiatric injuryâsecondary victims. /Title 18 0 obj 21 0 obj /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] >> << /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 754 560 728] McLoughlin v O'Brian [1983] 1 AC 410 is an English tort law case, decided by the House of Lords, dealing with the possibility of recovering for psychiatric harm suffered as a result of an accident in which one's family was involved. 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. 29 0 obj /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 190 460 164] /Parent 9 0 R /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 593 560 567] 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. << << >> << << 50 0 obj >> >> << /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 111 460 85] endobj /Resources 106 0 R >> >> McLoughlin v O'Brian [1983] 1 AC House of Lords. 80 0 obj Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. /D [16 0 R /FitR 347 260 560 244] endobj These cases established that secondary victims could only claim for psychiatric injury in very limited circumstances, and White confirms these limitations. /D [25 0 R /FitR 247 515 460 499] /Parent 9 0 R /Count 10 endobj >> 8 0 obj /Annots [179 0 R 180 0 R 181 0 R 182 0 R] << << The technology to maintain this privacy management relies on cookie identifiers. << >> endobj /Rotate 0 /Parent 10 0 R >> Secondary victims. /Title (S2056467817000160jra 110..122) Goss J was of the opinion that DE (who was present at the time of injury) had to be classed as a secondary victim. << /D [16 0 R /FitR 28 205 145 176] The difficulty for the pursuer was that she was clearly a secondary victim and the law relating to psychiatric injuries was quite clear â only primary victims could be granted compensation for the psychiatric injuries that they had suffered as a result of the defenderâs negligence. Secondary victim = someone who witnesses an accident which results in there being an injury, or fear of injury, to the primary victim. Tort la⦠>> /Rect [36 385.228 92.466 392.712] << 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. 59 0 obj 79 0 obj A secondary victim is one who suffers psychiatric injury as a consequence of witnessing or being informed of an accident, which involves another. /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 591 350 565] << >> 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. /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] HUMÛ6½ëWèTÐÁËOIìÝ"-ZäÐÄEPlrÐÊô,¹¢d× ÷æÐßÛR¶å$hwÕ4óøfæ
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%§Ôýno;_ðrõ~ý3öSnò. 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 victimâs injuries for secondary victim claims. /Border [0 0 0] A secondary victim is the one who suffers psychiatric injury as a result of witnessing or being informed about an accident which involves another. 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. 86 0 obj /Type /Page This is then very problematic, therefore that is why I hav⦠Ibid, per Lord Wilberforce, at 304. 81 0 obj /Dest /Type /Annot >> 69 0 obj /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 639 350 613] /Parent 9 0 R << It did not, therefore, arise in any of the House of Lords cases, McLoughlin, Alcock, Page v Smith, Frost v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police, in which the elements of secondary victim liability had been judicially defined. /Outlines 3 0 R << /Subtype /XML /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] 7 Bedford Row | Personal Injury Law Journal | July/August 2017 #157. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. << Johnstone v NEI International (2007) - not overruled. /Parent 10 0 R /D [21 0 R /FitR 37 118 250 102] One of the leading secondary victim cases is that of McLoughlin. << It is important to recall its facts, which were extreme (Box 2). << << endobj The principles of secondary victim claims are well established. /Parent 9 0 R Alcock at 407d-e. McLoughlin v OâBrien [1983] 1 AC 410 â provided the foundations of the current. /Next 15 0 R /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 713 350 687] /Type /Annot /Parent 11 0 R /Parent 10 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] 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. /Dest << 84 0 obj /Border [0 0 0] /Border [0 0 0] /Resources 201 0 R 84 0 R] endobj 85 0 obj endobj Firstly, relatives and friends. endobj >> 26 0 obj 17 0 obj >> >> 44 0 R 45 0 R 46 0 R 47 0 R 48 0 R We use the word "partner" to refer to a member of the LLP, or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications. /Next 86 0 R >> 60 0 obj /Border [0 0 0] /St 110 Secondary Victims. endobj /S /URI Who has a case in liability â identify the victims 2. /Dest << << endobj >> /Type /Page ... is also a requirement that that the claimant must have had a close personal or familial relationship with the accident victim. Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher 10.0.1465/W Unicode /Dests 8 0 R 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. 47 0 obj /D [21 0 R /FitR 247 749 460 735] 11 0 obj /Contents [175 0 R 176 0 R 177 0 R] /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] 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 /Parent 10 0 R >> 43 0 obj uuid:dc887acd-67e3-4fd8-a6e7-8c7cbddfc837 << When those whom the law terms âsecondary victimsâ â i.e. The Court of Appeal Judges found that unsurprising. /Rotate 0 /Resources 118 0 R /Subtype /Link 49 0 obj The law here provides a much stricter approach in this area. 94 0 obj /Resources 145 0 R /D [21 0 R /FitR 37 577 250 563] << /Contents [213 0 R 214 0 R 215 0 R] the passive and unwilling witnesses of injury, or of the threat of it, to others â seek compensation through the courts for the psychiatric injuries that they have suffered (traditionally but confusingly referred to as ânervous shockâ claims), there would in theory be the potential for a virtually limitless number of claims. 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