High Court of South Africa Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth - 2011 August

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August 2011
A bus passenger is entitled to damages for physical and psychiatric injuries, including probable future surgery and therapy.
Delict – Road accident – quantum assessment of general damages for physical and psychiatric injury; Psychiatric injury – bystander/non-relative can claim for chronic PTSD where harm reasonably foreseeable and proved; Future medical expenses – award based on probabilistic expert opinion of likely future surgery; Causation – expert evidence preferred over speculative pre-existing causes.
16 August 2011