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Page v Smith

[1996] AC 155; [1995] UKHL 7
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHouse of Lords
Year1995
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Where the claimant is a primary victim directly involved in an accident, it is enough that personal injury of some kind (physical or psychiatric) was reasonably foreseeable; foreseeability of psychiatric injury specifically need not be separately established.

Area of Law

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