psychiatricinjury

01

Jun

2022

Secondary Victims and Psychiatric Injury

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Written by Sydney Mitchell

If you witness the traumatic death of or another shocking event afflicting a close relative, which in turn results from earlier clinical negligence, are you entitled to compensation for any psychiatric injury you suffer? In considering that burning...

29

Jun

2020

Welcome Clarity for Secondary Victims of Clinical Negligence

Written by Adam Hodson

For nearly 30 years, the law has sought to constrain the ability of secondary victims – those who suffer psychiatric injury not by being directly involved in an incident but by witnessing (or fearing) injury to a primary victim – to make personal...

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