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LAW OF TORT Problem question: Mother in hospital informed that baby has died. Information not true. Mother claimed for nervous shock. Advice. In this question, it is arguably plausible to assume to assume that parents might suffer a medically recognized adverse psychological reaction. How might the English tort system react if they articulate their grievance as a tort claim? Notion of distributive justice first appeared in the law reports in White v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire. Lord Steyn and Hoffman thought that the concept required them to reject the claimant police officer's actions on the basis that if it would be unfair to allow their claims after those of the bereaved relatives had been rejected. However, to implement a legal policy of ensuring that the law remained fair between classes of claimant, the house relied on legal principle the distinction between primary and secondary victim of psychiatric harm. Following Page v Smith the...

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