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- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire | LawTeacher. net
The House of Lords, in finding for D, held that, in cases of purely psychiatric damage caused by negligence, a distinction must be drawn between ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ victims
- Alcock ors v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [1992] — e . . .
Lord Oliver set out the distinction between primary and secondary victims A primary victim one involved mediately or immediately as a participant and a secondary victim one who is no more than a passive and unwilling witness of injury to others
- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire – Case Summary
For a duty to be owed to protect a secondary victim from psychiatric harm, the following criteria must be met: The claimant must have suffered harm by way of a ‘sudden shock’ as a result Lord Keith of Kinkel stated that a close tie of love and affection is presumed between spouses, and for parents towards their children
- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police - Wikipedia
The plaintiffs in this case were mostly secondary victims, i e they were not "directly affected" as opposed to the primary victims who were either injured or were in danger of immediate injury
- Law Reform: Psychiatric Harm and Secondary Victims
In this case, the court set out three criteria for a successful claim by secondary victims of psychiatric harm; those who suffer psychiatric damage as a result of injury to, or death or imperilment of, another
- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire - Wikiversity
The Lords set out criteria (commonly referred to as the "Alcock criteria") for establishing whether a secondary victim could claim for psychiatric harm: A close tie of love and affection to a primary victim;
- Alcock v Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police [1992 . . .
Lord Wilberforce’s 3 elements of psychiatric injury in McLoughlin must be applied to secondary victims; Facts Cases were brought by friends and relatives of those caught in the Hillsborough football stadium tragedy: The two brothers of victim Brian Harrison who were at the site and witnessed his death
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