{"id":2565,"date":"2017-02-28T05:34:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T05:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askanacademic.com\/uncategorized\/psychiatric-injury-primary-and-secondary-victims-134\/"},"modified":"2019-09-25T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T14:27:41","slug":"psychiatric-injury-primary-and-secondary-victims-134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askanacademic.com\/law\/psychiatric-injury-primary-and-secondary-victims-134\/","title":{"rendered":"In claims for psychiatric injury, what is the difference between primary and secondary victims?"},"content":{"rendered":"
What are the distinctions between primary and secondary victims of psychiatric illness?<\/p>\n
A primary victim is a one who could have been in immediate physical danger, but only suffered psychiatric illness (White v CC of South Yorkshire [1999]). It is possible that even if the physical harm did not materialise, a defendant could still be liable to a victim of psychiatric harm (Page v Smith).<\/p>\n
Secondary victims are those who were not in any danger of harm but rather become psychiatrically ill due to witnessing the death\/injury of an immediate victim in which they have a loving and affectionate relationship with (Alcock v CC of South Yorkshire Police ([1992]).<\/p>\n
It is important to note that the psychiatric injury must be a medically recognised condition. Thus, normal grief and distress would be insufficient.<\/p>\n
Under the law of tort, what are the differences between primary and secondary victims when trying to make a claim for psychiatric injury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n