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Case: Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (1992)

In this case the courts laid down the tests that would be used to determine when a secondary victim may be compensated for psychiatric damage in negligence cases, they must have close ties of love and affection with the primary victims, witness the shocking scene or its immediate aftermath, and do so with their own unaided sense.