... relating to nervous shock could be no exception. The Law Commission's proposals for the reform of the law relating to nervous shock are an attempt to improve those aspects of law which are less wanted nowadays, in order for the law to serve its purpose to the highest point possible. Before we begin examining the Law Commission's report it is imperative that we remember the four basic principles governing the law relating to nervous shock cases. These basic rules are: (a) at common law grief or sorrow do not constitute nervous shock. Although if nervous shock is proved, the plaintiff will get damages for grief and sorrow. (b) we need to find in a case that it was reasonably foreseeable that an ordinarily strong-nerved-person - one with ordinary phlegm - would suffer some shock although it might not be to the actual extent of shock of a particular plaintiff. ...

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