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Chapter 8: Causation of Damage

Chapter 8: Causation of Damage

pp. 400-486

Authors

Rachael Mulheron, Queen Mary University of London
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Summary

In his negligence suit against D, C can only recover damages from D where D caused, or materially contributed to, C’s harm; or where, exceptionally, some weaker causal link is established between D’s breach and C’s harm.

Keywords

  • de minimis threshold
  • loss-of-a-chance claims
  • ‘but-for’ test
  • material contribution to risk
  • material contribution to damage
  • the Bolitho theorem
  • intervening acts
  • pure omissions
  • supervening events
  • burden of proof

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