The Weekly Law Reports
[1982] 2 WLR 982
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
McLOUGHLIN APPELLANT AND O'BRIAN AND OTHERS RESPONDENTS
1982 Feb. 15,
16,
17;
May 6
May 6
Lord Wilberforce, Lord Edmund-Davies, Lord Russell of Killowen, Lord Scarman and Lord Bridge of Harwich
Negligence
— Duty of care to whom?
— Shock
— Plaintiff's husband and children injured in road accident caused by defendants' negligence
— Plaintiff subsequently told of accident and taken to see family in hospital
— Whether nervous shock reasonably foreseeable
— Whether duty of care owed to persons not present at scene of accident
— Policy considerations