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Alcock and others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (1991)
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Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police
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Court House of lords
Date decided 28 December 1991
Citation(s) [1992] 1 AC 310
Keywords
Negligence, nervous shock, primary and secondary victims

[1992] 1 AC 310. The claimants were all friends and relatives of victims of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster.

Their claim against the police were forpsychiatric injury consequent on the police's negligent crowd control (see Negligence). All their claims failed, for a variety of different reasons. Alcock is generally regarded as the most authorative statement of what is required to establish a claim for psychiatric injury, in circumstances in which personal injury was not reasonably forseeable. If personal injury was forseeable, then page v smith (1996) shows that psychiatric injury is not to be treated differently from any other meta of injury, and the usual rules of negligence apply.
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