Palmer v Tees Health Authority
[1998] Lloyd's Rep Med 447
QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION
and Mr Justice GAGE
Negligence — Duty of care — Abduction, sexual abuse, murder and mutiliation of girl aged 4 — Perpetrator diagnosed as very disturbed — Nervous shock suffered by mother — Whether health carers owed duty of care to mother and daughter — Test to be applied — Whether mother could recover for nervous shock