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Mount Isa Mines Ltd v Pusey

[1970] HCA 60; (1970) 125 CLR 383
JurisdictionAustralia
CourtHigh Court of Australia
Year1970
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Liability for nervous shock depends on the foreseeability of psychiatric injury of that kind; the precise psychiatric condition need not be foreseen so long as some recognisable nervous shock was a foreseeable result.

Area of Law

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