Immediate Aftermath Cases

CICA Compensation claim, witnessing an incident.

There are basically two distinct situations when a claimant may qualify for a criminal injuury compensation award as a result of mental anxiety, or mental distress without actually begin injured themselves. The first situation is where you were threatened or had reasonable fear of immeditae physical harm. The word immediate is very important. If a victim was threatened by words indicating a threat of physical attack sometime in the future, then this would probably not be sufficient. The second situation is that where someone close to you suffered as a result of a criminal injury. It is possible to make a criminal injuries compensation claim for etiher of these scenarios.

The  first case is reasonably self-explanatory but the second case needs a little explaining. When someone else is injured in a criminal assault and you have suffered a mental condition due to this, you will have to show that you were present when the incident happened or you were closely involved in the immediate aftermath of the incident. The person in question would in normal circumstances need to be someone with whom you have a close relationship of love and affection. This could be a spouse, parner of either sex, a family member etc.

In deciding a criminal injury compensation application, the CICA would look at the circumstances of each individual case based on the above. There is no exacting definition of either immediate aftermath or close relationship of of love and affection.

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