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Psychiatric Injury: Picking up the pieces
Liam Ryan investigates unintended tragedies and the scope of secondary victims ‘It seems now to be clear that where a defendant is negligent while a baby is still “in utero” and personal injury (either to the child or mother) was a foreseeable consequence, then the mother will be capable of recovering compensation for any subsequent …
Cases Referenced
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- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1991] UKHL 5
- Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v Ronayne [2015] EWCA Civ 588
- McLoughlin v O'Brian [1982] UKHL 3
- RE (A Minor) v Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWHC 824 (QB)
- Wild v Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2014] EWHC 4053 (QB)