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1CL Weekly Webinar: Secondary Victim Claims: the “patchwork quilt of distinctions”
Published: 12/06/2020
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Edward Bishop QC and Laura Johnson discuss the challenges of secondary victim cases.
They consider the application of the control mechanisms set out in the case of Alcock v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, and the appeal decision last week in the case of Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, which considers the question of what is meant by the requirement that the secondary victim be proximate in time and space to the “event”.
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