Tame v New South Wales

Tame v New South Wales

Negligence – Duty of care - Psychiatric injury - Motor accident - Clerical error by police constable in recording driver's blood alcohol content - Psychotic depressive illness caused by driver learning of mistake - Whether duty of care owed by police constable to driver - Whether psychiatric injury reasonably foreseeable - Whether sole determinant of duty - Other control mechanisms for imposition of duty - Normal fortitude - Sudden shock - Direct perception - Immediate aftermath.

Annetts v Australian Stations Pty Limited

Negligence – Duty of care - Psychiatric injury - Death of child - Assurances of constant supervision of child made by employer to parents - Whether duty of care owed by employer of child to parents - Whether psychiatric injury reasonably foreseeable - Whether sole determinant of duty - Other control mechanisms for imposition of duty - Normal fortitude - Sudden shock - Direct perception - Immediate aftermath.