The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[2023] QB 149
Court of Appeal
Paul and another v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Polmear and another v Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Purchase
v
Ahmed
[2022] EWCA Civ 12
2021 Dec 14, 15; 2022 Jan 13
Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Underhill, Nicola Davies LJJ
Negligence— Psychiatric injury— Legal proximity— Defendant failing to diagnose primary victim’s life-threatening condition— Secondary victim suffering psychiatric injury after witnessing primary victim’s death from life-threatening condition or its immediate aftermath— Whether legal proximity between defendant and secondary victim