Farrell v Avon Health Authority

[2001] Lloyd's Rep Med 458

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and His Honour Judge BURSELL QC

Negligence — Nervous shock — Psychiatric injury — Recoverability of damages in negligence — Whether damages recoverable by father mistakenly told his new born baby had died — Whether father a “primary victim” — Whether sufficient for “primary victim” simply to prove reasonable foreseeability of psychiatric injury — Whether reasonable foreseeability dependent on knowledge of defendant at time — Whether question of foreseeability can be informed by expert evidence — Post Traumatic Stress Disorder