Bit complicated isn it?
Yes, very, as the Law Commission recognised in its report ‘Liability for Psychiatric Illness’ (No 249). It produced a draft bill simplifying what has become a very complicated area of law. Its recommendations would mean that many of the Hillsborough relatives whose secondary victim claims were dismissed because they failed to satisfy the proximity tests referred to above would have succeeded. However, the draft bill has joined the dust-covered pile of Law Commission recommendations on the floor of a room somewhere in the Palace of Westminster.
