The Irish High Court awards €87,238 for psychiatric injury to a witness of a fatal road traffic accident

Mr Justice David Keane on 3rd April 2020 found that despite the fact that the deceased driver was the tortfeasor of a road traffic collision, he owed a stranger to the scene a duty of care not to cause her a reasonably foreseeable injury in the form of psychiatric illness. The case raised two important issues: … Continue reading The Irish High Court awards €87,238 for psychiatric injury to a witness of a fatal road traffic accident