Time to cut ties: reforming the secondary victim ‘control mechanisms’ in pure psychiatric injury
Twenty years ago, Jane Stapleton cut right to the heart of what is wrong with the law’s approach to pure psychiatric injury claims by secondary victims when she said, ‘the area of nervous shock is … the area where the silliest rules now exist and where criticism is almost universal’. Two decades lat...
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Oxford University Press
2024
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