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Bourhill v Young

[1943] AC 92; 1942 SC (HL) 78; [1942] UKHL 5
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHouse of Lords (on appeal from the Court of Session, Scotland)
Year1942
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A duty of care in respect of nervous shock is owed only to those within the area of reasonably foreseeable physical or psychiatric harm; a bystander outside that zone is owed no duty.

Area of Law

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