The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2025] AC 459
Supreme Court
Paul and another v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Polmear and another v Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Purchase
v
Ahmed
[2024] UKSC 1
2023 May 16, 17, 18; 2024 Jan 11
Lord Briggs, Lord Sales, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows, Lady Rose, Lord Richards JJSC, Lord Carloway
Negligence— Psychiatric injury— Legal proximity— Defendant medical practitioner failing to diagnose primary victim’s life-threatening condition— Close family member suffering psychiatric injury after witnessing primary victim’s subsequent death from condition— Whether legal proximity between defendant and family member so as to give rise to duty of care— Whether analogy with psychiatric injury caused by witnessing death or injury in accident