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White v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police

[1998] UKHL 45; [1999] 2 AC 455; [1999] 1 All ER 1
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHouse of Lords
Year1998
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Neither employee status nor rescuer status confers a special exemption from the control mechanisms governing recovery for pure psychiatric injury; a rescuer must have been in or reasonably believed himself to be in physical danger.

Area of Law

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