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Psychiatric Injury: Collateral damage
Liam Ryan discusses the case law involving secondary victims in harassment claims One of the more interesting aspects in the development of personal injury law over the last 25 years has been the acknowledgment that psychiatric injury can be not only as serious as physical injury, but a general acceptance that psychiatric injuries are substantial, …
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- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1991] UKHL 5
- Dowson v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police [2010] EWHC 2612 (QB)
- Gulati v MGN Ltd [2015] EWHC 1482 (Ch)
- Hatton v Sutherland [2002] EWCA Civ 76
- Levi and Levi v Bates, Leeds United, Football Club Limited and Yorkshire Radio Limited [2015] EWCA Civ 206
- Thomas v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2001] EWCA Civ 1233