Time to Start De Novo: The Paul, Purchase and Polmear litigation and the temporal gap problem in secondary victim claims for psychiatric injury

Imogen Goold; Catherine J Kelly

Time to Start De Novo: The Paul, Purchase and Polmear litigation and the temporal gap problem in secondary victim claims for psychiatric injury

Imogen Goold, Catherine J Kelly

University of Bristol Law School

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Calls for a review of the law on recovery for psychiatric injuries suffered by those who witness harm to others, or secondary victims, highlighting the pending appeal to the Supreme Court from Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (CA) on whether third parties could recover damages for psychiatric injury sustained as a result of witnessing the personal injury or death of another.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	24-40
Number of pages	17
Journal	Tottel's Journal of Professional Negligence
Volume	39
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 23 Feb 2023

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Centre for Health, Law and Society
Tort Law
Psychiatric Injury

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Time to Start De Novo: The Paul, Purchase and Polmear litigation and the temporal gap problem in secondary victim claims for psychiatric injury

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