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Case Report: Jones v Ramshaw [2011] (unreported 5 September 2011)
Liability; psychiatric injury; secondary victims The judge preferred the claimant’s psychiatrist’s diagnosis of PTSD over the defendant’s psychiatrist’s diagnosis of deep grief.This case provides an illuminating consideration of the scope of liability in this difficult area of law. Facts On 2 November 2006, the claimant’s daughter was one of four teenage girls in the back …
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- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1991] UKHL 5
- Galli-Atkinson v Seghal [2003] EWCA Civ 697
- Jones v Ramshaw (Unreported 9 June 2011)
- McLoughlin v O'Brian [1982] UKHL 3
- North Glamorgan NHS Trust v Walters [2002] EWCA Civ 1792
- Taylorson v Shieldness Produce Ltd [1994] EWCA Civ 16
- Tranmore v T E Scudder Ltd [1998] EWCA Civ 733