What’s on the Psychiatric Injury poster
Primary victim against Secondary victim, side by side.
- Primary victim: Within the zone of physical danger
- Primary victim: Ordinary duty principles apply
- Primary victim: Physical injury need not occur
- Primary victim: Foreseeability of physical harm suffices
- Secondary victim: Witnessed harm to another
- Secondary victim: Close tie of love and affection required
- Secondary victim: Proximity in time and space
- Secondary victim: Perceived by their own senses
- Secondary victim: Recognised psychiatric illness required
- The restrictions on secondary victims exist to limit an otherwise indeterminate class…
Educational reference. Grief and distress are not compensable; a diagnosed psychiatric illness is required.
Questions about the Psychiatric Injury poster
- What’s on the Psychiatric Injury poster?
- Primary victim against Secondary victim, side by side. Primary victim: Within the zone of physical danger; Primary victim: Ordinary duty principles apply; Primary victim: Physical injury need not occur; Primary victim: Foreseeability of physical harm suffices; Secondary victim: Witnessed harm to another; Secondary victim: Close tie of love and affection required; Secondary victim: Proximity in time and space; Secondary victim: Perceived by their own senses; Secondary victim: Recognised psychiatric illness required; The restrictions on secondary victims exist to limit an otherwise indeterminate class…. Educational reference. Grief and distress are not compensable; a diagnosed psychiatric illness is required.
- Who is the Psychiatric Injury poster for?
- Psychiatric Injury belongs to the Law section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning tort can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Psychiatric Injury poster?
- The law distinguishes those directly endangered from those who witnessed harm to others. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Psychiatric Injury belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Psychiatric Injury?
- Causation, Damages and Defamation sit alongside Psychiatric Injury in the Law section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.CausationDamagesDefamation
- Is the Psychiatric Injury poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Psychiatric Injury downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Law section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Psychiatric Injury poster print at?
- Psychiatric Injury is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Psychiatric Injury loses nothing.Printing guide
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