To control which cookies are set, click Settings. endobj /Parent 14 0 R View all articles and reports associated with McLoughlin v O Brian [1982] UKHL 3. /Type /Page 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. >> 35 0 obj /Border [0 0 0] 94 0 obj /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] 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. >> Consequently the secondary victim suffers nervous shock (psychological injury). 7 Bedford Row | Personal Injury Law Journal | July/August 2017 #157. 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. /Dest This is then very problematic, therefore that is why I hav⦠endobj 14 0 obj /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] Who has a case in liability â identify the victims 2. /Parent 10 0 R 64 0 R 65 0 R 66 0 R 67 0 R 68 0 R >> endobj /Annots [170 0 R 171 0 R 172 0 R 173 0 R 174 0 R] /Title (S2056467817000160jra 110..122) White establishes that these groups are subject to the same rules, namely those developed in McLoughlin v OâBrian and Alcock v Chief Constable of Yorkshire. << /Border [0 0 0] /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] /Type /Page /Rotate 0 /Type /Page A secondary victim suffers psychiatric harm in circumstances where he is âno. /Count 3 58 0 obj /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 606 560 580] There is uncertainty as to how close a secondary victim must be to the accident. endobj 83 0 obj << endobj /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] There is uncertainty as to how close a secondary victim must be to the accident. /Prev 14 0 R /Rotate 0 The law here provides a much stricter approach in this area. /Annots [146 0 R 147 0 R 148 0 R 149 0 R] /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 652 350 626] 16 0 obj 93 0 obj >> 2018-02-21T19:08:17+05:01 /Border [0 0 0] Secondary victims are those not within the physical zone of danger but witnesses of horrific events. endobj /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] >> endobj 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. /Dest /Length 1042 When those whom the law terms âsecondary victimsâ â i.e. >> uuid:dc887acd-67e3-4fd8-a6e7-8c7cbddfc837 /First 9 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. >> endobj 21 0 obj /Type /Page /D [20 0 R /FitR 347 749 560 735] stream
>> /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] >> endobj 71 0 obj << endobj These two rules apply regardless whether a person is a primary or a secondary victim. 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. endobj endobj << /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 739 350 713] /St 110 /S /URI endobj This latest appeal builds on the series of reported cases since December 2014. /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 700 350 674] /Dests 8 0 R /Type /Page 86 0 obj /Rotate 0 endobj /Subtype /Link >> >> An ambulance took the injured parties to hospital. 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 ⦠<< /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 754 560 728] 43 0 obj /Parent 5 0 R >> endobj /Type /Page >> Brenna Conroy outlines the distinction between appreciation of an accident and witnessing a victimâs injuries for secondary victim claims âOne of the key themes that emerges from recent authorities is that a secondary victim claim will fail where the primary victim has received treatment such as to make that scene sufficiently different to that at ⦠Secondary victims. 21 Dec 2020 at 19:54:49, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use. << << /Parent 10 0 R << 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. << 37 0 obj /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] VAT number: 188 0564 36. o McLoughlin v O'Brian laid down criteria by which claim by secondary victim could be assessed, while opposing expansion HoL adopted and approved McLoughlin criteria in decision of Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [1991] 4 All ER 907 which is leading case in regard to secondary victims %PDF-1.3 /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 433 460 418] >> << 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. 89 0 obj endobj /URI (mailto:keith.rix@nsft.nhs.uk) /Count 1 76 0 obj << << >> /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] /Border [0 0 0] >> >> endobj /Parent 10 0 R endobj 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. 48 0 obj /Parent 10 0 R 34 0 obj /Dest 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. << 32 0 obj /D [17 0 R /FitR 247 684 460 669] >> endobj endobj The technology to maintain this privacy management relies on cookie identifiers. 23 0 obj /Rect [36 385.228 92.466 392.712] 20 0 obj << 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] /Contents [175 0 R 176 0 R 177 0 R] endstream endobj 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. /Next 15 0 R 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. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 74 0 R 75 0 R 76 0 R 77 0 R 78 0 R 24 0 obj 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. 40 0 obj /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 212 460 186] endobj /Producer (Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 \(Windows\)) << >> /Parent 9 0 R 49 0 obj endobj These cookies enable core website functionality, and can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences. << stream
13 0 obj 80 0 obj Primary victims are simpler to distinguish in comparison to secondary victims. endobj endobj /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 726 350 700] McLoughlin v OâBrian [1983] 1 AC. endobj One of the leading secondary victim cases is that of McLoughlin. endobj 28 0 obj 85 0 obj /Rect [504.397 389.82 524.239 398.835] /First 14 0 R - Whilst bystanders who came upon a serious >> Start studying Psychiatric Damage. >> /Filter /FlateDecode << << /Resources 118 0 R /Nums [0 12 0 R] This was in addition to the already stringent constraints put in place by McLoughlin v OâBrian [1983]. There was no sudden appreciation of an event here because there was a series of events giving rise to an accumulation of gradual assaults on the Claimant’s mind. 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. /D [16 0 R /FitR 0 842 596 0] /Rotate 0 /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 750 350 734] 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 A secondary victim is one who suffers psychiatric injury as a consequence of witnessing or being informed of an accident, which involves another. 41 0 obj /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 256 460 230] endobj /D [18 0 R /FitR 137 540 350 525] 95 0 obj What constitutes immediate aftermath is decided on the particular facts of the case: Caparo test - Page v Smith (1996) Is personal injury foreseeable? << << 47 0 obj Alcock at 407d-e. McLoughlin v OâBrien [1983] 1 AC 410 â provided the foundations of the current. /Parent 14 0 R endobj << more than a passive and unwilling witness of injury caused to othersâ: Lord Oliver in. /Next 217 0 R /Rotate 0 endobj /Subtype /XML << /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 706 560 680] The signiï¬cance of this point lies in the judgment of Lord Bridge in this same case: >> She had undergone a hysterectomy and a few days after discharge she became unwell and was admitted to A&E. /Outlines 3 0 R The Court made it clear that the death of a loved one in hospital (although not the facts of the Ronayne case) would not qualify unless accompanied by circumstances which were wholly exceptional in some way so as to shock or horrify. /Prev 221 0 R << 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⦠/Rect [312.718 102.501 330.35 110.495] 31 0 obj /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] << /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] 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. endobj 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. We use the word "partner" to refer to a member of the LLP, or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications. 30 0 obj /Resources 169 0 R 61 0 obj HUMÛ6½ëWèTÐÁËOIìÝ"-ZäÐÄEPlrÐÊô,¹¢d× ÷æÐßÛR¶å$hwÕ4óøfæ
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%§Ôýno;_ðrõ~ý3öSnò. 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. << >> endobj /Parent 9 0 R >> >> /Border [0 0 0] Psychiatric Injury: Victims of circumstance. >> endobj /Rotate 0 /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 593 560 567] endobj Secondary victim = someone who witnesses an accident which results in there being an injury, or fear of injury, to the primary victim. /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 674 350 648] The probable limit of this is in McLoughlin v OâBrian. >> /D [16 0 R /FitR 347 242 560 227] ... is also a requirement that that the claimant must have had a close personal or familial relationship with the accident victim. << The case of Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v Ronayne which was heard at the Court of Appeal in 2015, has set the bar for nervous shock claims arising from clinical negligence nervous shock cases. /Annots [195 0 R 196 0 R 197 0 R] endobj endobj 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 >> endobj << In Mcloughlin the mother raced to the hospital after hearing her family had been in a motor vehicle collision. endobj /Parent 9 0 R >> << >> 39 0 obj /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 133 460 107] A secondary victim is the one who suffers psychiatric injury as a result of witnessing or being informed about an accident which involves another. << >> /Last 15 0 R endobj uuid:9a691764-353a-4318-b559-7df4e14e950f It was later discovered that a misplaced suture in her colon had caused complications. /D [23 0 R /FitR 37 749 250 735] endobj << /Type /Page << >> We use cookies to optimise site functionality and give you the best possible experience.
77 0 obj /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] /Type /Page << /Contents [127 0 R 128 0 R 129 0 R] They have drawn a distinction between 'secondary' and 'primary' victims. /A 223 0 R /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 111 460 85] /D [21 0 R /FitR 37 118 250 102] >> endobj >> Her arms, legs and face were very swollen. >> /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 190 460 164] >> /Prev 88 0 R claimant's (C) who suffer psychiatric damage (nervous shock) can claim in Negligence, rules refined to take account of special nature of damage /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] 22 0 obj /Next 219 0 R /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] << >> /Annots [154 0 R 155 0 R 156 0 R 157 0 R 158 0 R] 60 0 obj Not for further distribution unless allowed by the License or with the express written permission of Cambridge University Press. 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 ⦠/Contents [207 0 R 208 0 R 209 0 R] /Type /Page endobj Johnstone v NEI International (2007) - not overruled. << /Type /Catalog The four possible classes are as discussed below. /Annots [163 0 R 164 0 R 165 0 R] /Resources 186 0 R << /S /D 59 0 R 60 0 R 61 0 R 62 0 R 63 0 R endobj This resulted in LE being able to sidestep the draconian control measures imposed by Mcloughlin v OâBrian [1982] and Alcock. /Title /Type /Page 10 0 obj /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] /D [16 0 R /FitR 347 260 560 244] Third-Party cookies are set by our partners and help us to improve your experience of the website. endobj /Parent 9 0 R /D [19 0 R /FitR 37 575 250 560] << /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 693 560 667] /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] 69 0 R 70 0 R 71 0 R 72 0 R 73 0 R /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 741 560 715] << approach to secondary victims. 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. endobj >> /Names 2 0 R << /Type /Annot >> One of the leading secondary victim cases is that of McLoughlin. >> << They all highlight the strictness of the control mechanisms and the difficulties for Claimants in establishing such claims. /Dest endobj /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 617 350 591] Primary victims must be in the danger zone (Page v Smith [1996] 1 AC 155). >> << >> 55 0 obj 25 0 obj /Resources 194 0 R << 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⦠>> 1 0 obj /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 234 460 208] 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. /Dest 55. There has been a much more consistent thread of principle through the decisions since Taylor v Novo. /Type /Pages /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 641 560 615] Google Analytics cookies help us to understand your experience of the website and do not store any personal data. >> /D [25 0 R /FitR 37 117 250 102] << /Rotate 0 >> 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. << /Type /Annot 79 0 obj Firstly, relatives and friends. /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] << >> 87 0 obj 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. In hospital you must expect to see things that you may not like, such as patients connected to machines and drips. >> /Type /Page << >> /Contents [115 0 R 116 0 R 117 0 R] /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 680 560 654] When the secondary victim suffers a nervous shock and satisfy the three factors of Mcloughlin's case. 52 0 obj << /Resources 106 0 R endobj /PageLabels 6 0 R << /D [16 0 R /FitR 28 205 145 176] endobj Secondly, the secondary victim must be both close in terms of âspatial and temporal proximityâ (translation: same time, same place.) /Resources 153 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] /Parent 10 0 R /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] McLoughlin v OâBrian 54 0 obj << A secondary victim is one who suffers nervous shock without himself/herself being directly exposed to any physical danger in the accident to the primary victim. >> /Rect [444.359 209.254 464.201 218.211] Chadwick v British Railways Board [1967] 2 All ER 945. 97 0 obj /Rotate 0 9 0 obj /Resources 216 0 R 79 0 R 80 0 R 81 0 R 82 0 R 83 0 R << >> /Limits [ ] 74 0 obj >> >> 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 . /Title /Dest endobj /Resources 178 0 R /Count 10 >> 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. /Annots [187 0 R 188 0 R 189 0 R 190 0 R] He described his shock at her looking like ‘the Michelin Man’. 5 0 obj Tort law protects the interests of the individual and adjudicates private wrongs. 44 0 obj /Type /Annot /CreationDate (D:20180221190817+05'30') Shortly before she underwent emergency surgery for septicaemia, Mr Ronayne saw his wife connected to various machines including drips and monitors. << /D [27 0 R /FitR 247 267 460 251] A secondary victim is one who suffers psychiatric injury as a consequence of witnessing or being informed of an accident, which involves another. If not, you are a secondary victim and must satisfy a control test (Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire [1992] 1 AC 310). endobj Identify appropriate test to establish duty. /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 687 350 661] /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] << << It is important to recall its facts, which were extreme (Box 2). /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 639 350 613] The Court of Appeal Judges found that unsurprising. 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 ⦠>> << 6 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 59 0 obj >> endobj endobj ... secondary victims as laid down by the House of Lords and its significance for the determination of liability in nervous shock cases. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. endobj /Subtype /Link You can learn more detailed information in our Privacy Policy. >> /Last 220 0 R 39 0 R 40 0 R 41 0 R 42 0 R 43 0 R << << >> 67 0 obj >> Key points from the Court of Appeal judgment (which overturned the award of compensation to Mr Ronayne made by an experienced clinical negligence trial Judge) were: To establish a secondary victim claim it is necessary to establish that the relevant ‘shocking event’ was a) exceptional b) sudden and c) horrifying. endobj /Subtype /Link /Dest When the secondary victim suffers a nervous shock and satisfy the three factors of Mcloughlin's case. 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. << Many secondary victims may fail at this hurdle, due to its dangerous vagueness and unpredictability. 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. /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 728 560 702] endobj /Dest 63 0 obj 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. /Parent 11 0 R /CropBox [0 0 595.276 841.89] endobj /D [27 0 R /FitR 37 250 250 234] Click here for a full list of Google Analytics cookies used on this site. 29 0 obj (2) Secondary Victims ⢠Secondary victims are claimants who suffer psychological injury as a result of injury to someone else ⢠And who satisfy the control mechanisms:- ⢠Injury induced by shock ⢠Direct perception of the accident or its aftermath ⢠Presence at the scene of the accident or its aftermath Is the injury a recognisable psychiatric injury - Reiley v Myerside 1995 / Attia v British Gas 1998 3. /Length 10 90 0 obj 45 0 obj endobj >> A secondary victim is the one who suffers psychiatric injury as a result of witnessing or being informed about an accident which involves another. << /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 628 560 602] /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] >> /D [28 0 R /FitR 347 654 560 628] /Parent 10 0 R << >> >> endobj So the first and foremost rule is that a claim in psychiatric harm ⦠After surgery he saw her unconscious, connected to a ventilator and being administered four types of antibiotic intravenously. 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. /Contents [150 0 R 151 0 R 152 0 R] Because of the potential for ‘opening the floodgates’ (i.e. 88 0 obj << << /Contents [183 0 R 184 0 R 185 0 R] application/pdf /D [28 0 R /FitR 137 578 350 552] It is important to recall its facts, which were extreme (Box 2). 17 0 obj /Annots [179 0 R 180 0 R 181 0 R 182 0 R] endobj endobj McLoughlin v O'Brian [1983] 1 AC House of Lords. /Last 9 0 R << endobj >> 72 0 obj << Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. 27 0 obj endobj /Parent 11 0 R 4 0 obj /D [24 0 R /FitR 137 141 350 126] /Dest Lord Bridge suggested that reasonable foreseeability of the pursuer suffering harm should be enough to establish liability. /Contents [166 0 R 167 0 R 168 0 R] >> /Rect [69.804 15.849609 162.582 23.774414] 51 0 obj Secondary victim claims ... 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