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Chapter 5 Multiple choice questions
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Chapter 5 Multiple choice questions
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Which of the following statements is
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one of the policy reasons for the reluctance to find a duty of care for psychiatric damage?
The belief that psychiatric injury was likely to be falsified
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The opening of the floodgates
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Psychiatric damage is not as harmful as physical
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incorrect
Conditions such as PTSD had not yet been recognised
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Which of the following is potentially actionable in negligence as psychiatric damage?
Severe depression which is medically certified
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Grief
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Extreme anger
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Depression following injury in an accident
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Which case is the odd one out?
Dulieu v White
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Sion v Hampstead HA
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Walters v N Glamorgan NHS Trust
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McLoughlin v O'Brian
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incorrect
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Which of the following is
not
true of a primary victim?
She believes she is in danger of physical injury
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The existence of such a duty was illustrated in
Bourhill v Young
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He is in danger of physical injury
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She must suffer physical injury in order for a duty to be owed to her for psychiatric injury
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Which of the statements below does
not
accurately reflect what is required of a claimant by the ratio of
Alcock v Chief Constable of S. Yorkshire
?
Reasonable foreseeability that she would be physically injured by the negligence
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Suffering nervous shock through what was seen or heard of the accident or its immediate aftermath
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Proximity to the accident, or its immediate aftermath, which was sufficiently close in time and space
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A sufficiently close relationship of love and affection with the primary victim
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There was no liability to the plaintiff in
Bourhill v Young
because she was not physically injured. True or false?
True
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False
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Which situation would qualify as 'immediate aftermath' for the purposes of establishing duty of care for psychiatric damage?
Coming upon the scene of an accident after the emergency services had cleared it
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A paramedic arriving at the scene of an accident
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incorrect
Viewing a body in a mortuary nine hours after a fatal event
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Attending a hospital to see the victims two hours after the accident
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incorrect
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In which case below was the rescuer successful in his negligence claim?
McFarlane v EE Caledonia
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Greatorex v Greatorex
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Chadwick v British Railways Board
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incorrect
White v CC S Yorkshire
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incorrect
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The proposal for the abolition of the
Alcock
requirements of physical proximity and experience with unaided senses comes from which source?
The Law Commission Report of 1999
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The Pearson Report
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Attia v British Gas
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W v Essex County Council
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Which was the least important factor in the decision in
Donachie v CC Greater Manchester?
The claimant was suing his employers
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The claimant was a police officer
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The claimant developed his condition over an extended period
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Donachie was held to be a primary victim
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