Greatorex v Greatorex
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
| Year | 2000 |
| Date | 2000 |
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2 cases
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Lisa Sheehan v Bus Éireann/Irish Bus and Vincent Dower
...the judge noted that this was entirely predicated on a judgment of the High Court of England and Wales in Greatorex v Greatorex [2000] 1 WLR 1970. In that case, Cazalet J held that where the primary victim suffered his injuries as a result of his own negligence, the requirements of policy d......
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Sheehan v Bus Éireann_Irish Bus
...(CA)). In support of the second, they rely on the judgment of Cazalet J in the High Court of England and Wales in Greatorex v Greatorex [2000] 1 WLR 1970. The proceedings 10 A personal injuries summons issued on behalf of Ms Sheehan on 25 January 2018. Each of the defendants entered an app......
1 firm's commentaries
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PI Focus-Second Chance: Contributory Negligence In Secondary Victim Claims
...therefore did not pass into law. The only authority of relevance to the issue remains the pre-Alcock decision in Greatorex v Greatorex [2000] 1 WLR 1970, in which Cazalet J accepted the self-determination argument against the imposition of a duty on a primary victim in relation to a seconda......
3 books & journal articles
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Table of cases
...251, 252 Gray v Cotic, [1983] 2 SCR 2, 1 DLR (4th) 187 ..................................................111 Greatorex v Greatorex, [2000] 4 All ER 769 (QB) ............................................... 92 Gregg v Scott, [2005] UKHL 2, [2005] 2 AC 176 ...........................................
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Negligence: Basic Principles
...misconduct and who sexually assaulted their biological children. 190 (1998), 40 OR (3d) 355 (CA). See also Greatorex v Greatorex , [2000] 4 All ER 769 (QB). Negligence: Basic Principles 93 could not reasonably have foreseen the post-traumatic stress suffered by the plaintiff as a consequenc......
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Nervous approach to nervous shock: a critical evaluation of the contemporary irish jurisprudence governing claims for damages for negligently inflicted psychiatric injury
...II’ (2006) 24(24) ILT 77 at 80. 141 ibid. 142 Bourhill v Young's Executor [1941] SC 395 at 399. Furthermore, in Greatorex v Greatorex [2000] 1 WLR 1970, the court held that damages could not be recovered in such circumstances as it would interfere with the tortfeasor’s right of self-determi......