Reilly v Merseyside Regional Health Authority

(1995) 6 Med LR 246

COURT OF APPEAL

Lord Justice BUTLER-SLOSS, Lord Justice MANNLORD, and Lord Justice SAVILLE

Damages — Negligence — Normal human emotions — Husband, aged 61, and wife, aged 68, trapped in hospital lift due to negligence of health authority — Suffering from apprehension and fear, discomfort and shortness of breath — No recognised psychiatric injury — Whether judge erred in referring to physical injury alternatively relying upon “psychological injury or illness”