PRIMARY VICTIMS

• Tredget v Bexley


  Profound grief was recognised as a psychiatric injury
• Reily v Merseyside


  Everyday emotions are not recognised as psychiatric injury
• Hinz v Berry


  Morbid depression is recognised as a psychiatric injury
• Page v Smith

  If V is directly involved in the incident as an actual participant and some / any kind of harm was foreseeable than C is a primary victim
• Delieu v White


  If C is in fear of their safety then they are considered a primary victim
• Chadwick v BR


  If a rescuer puts themself in danger they are a primary victim
• White v Cheif Constable of South Yorkshire Police and McFarlane


  If C is not in the vicinity of danger they will not be a primary victim but a bystander
• Haynes v Harwood


  Defences do not apply if C felt morally obliged to get involved