Unit 9 of Law of Torts, Motor Accident Claims and Consumer Protection (syllabus: Nervous Shock, Causation and Remoteness). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.
What this unit covers
- When can a person who only witnessed an accident recover for psychiatric injury?
- Why the Alcock control mechanisms do not touch a primary victim
- When is the chain of causation broken?
- How remote is too remote?
Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.
Leading cases
- Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (1992)
- Page v Smith (1996)
- Barnett v Chelsea and Kensington Hospital Management Committee (1969)
- The Wagon Mound (No. 1) (1961) — Overseas Tankship (U.K.) Ltd v Morts Dock & Engineering Co Ltd