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White v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (1998) followup

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  • January 24, 2018 at 5:09 pm #432704
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    Facts:The claimants were police constables on duty for maintaining law 
    and order during a football match in April 1989 at Hillsborough 
    Stadium.  As a result of overcrowding and the consequent 
    stampede, 95 people died and hundreds of others sustained 
    injuries.  The policemen on duty, including the claimants, had to tend 
    to the victims for whom many of them suffered post traumatic stress 
    disorder. Four of them were on duty at the stadium, and the fifth one 
    was responsible for stripping bodies and completing casualty forms 
    at a hospital. Resultantly, they claimed compensation for their 
    psychiatric injury from the police department.

    Held: The House of Lords overruled the decision of the Court of Appeal 
    and rejected the claim.  It was established that the claimants were a 
    ‘secondary victim’.  A secondary victim is someone whose personal 
    safety is not threatened, but who suffers psychiatric injury as a result 
    of either fear for the safety of others or the trauma of witnessing a 
    harrowing event.  In order to succeed in their claim a secondary 
    victim must satisfy three requirements. First, they must have close 
    ties of love and affection with the person who suffers injury or death 
    in an accident attributable to negligence. Second, they must have 
    been present at the accident or on the scene in its immediate 
    aftermath. And third, the psychiatric injury must have been caused by 
    direct perception of the accident or its immediate aftermath and not 
    upon receiving it second­hand.  In this case the claimants did not 
    meet the first criteria.

    My questions : Sir weren’t the claimants considered as neighbor in this case?

    January 24, 2018 at 8:07 pm #432719
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    But their claim failed because they didn’t satisfy the first criteria ie “they must have close
    ties of love and affection with the person who suffers injury or death in an accident attributable to negligence” and the policemen did not have those close ties of love and affection

    OK?

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