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Causation + Remoteness
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Mind Map on Causation + Remoteness, created by j.wisbey.12 on 20/07/2014.
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Causation + Remoteness
Factual Causation
The pursuer must prove factual causation
The 'but for' test can be used, but problems with ommissions
Barnett v Chelsea and Kensington Hospital Management Committee
Material Contribution
Need a balance of probabilities - Wardlaw v Bonnington Castings Ltd
McGhee v NCB. No difference between increasing risk and materially contributing
Addressing the atribution problem
Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services
Parameters of Fairchild exception
1. Duty intended to protect employees
2. Intended to create civil right
3. Greater exposure to asbestos, greater risk of injury
4. Cannot prove which dust is guilty
5. Employee contracted disease which he should have been protected from
Legal Causation
Novus actus inteveniens
An external event, conduct of 3rd party, conduct of victim themselves
A new delict needs to occur.
Reasonable forseeability of victims actions - Sayers v Harlow Urban District Council
Remoteness of damage
Prevents wrongdoer from having to pay results of wrongdoing
The grand rule
1. Damages directly and naturally arising
2.Reasonable foreseeability
Which rule has priority?
Result: not liable for things unforeseeable, must take victim as they find them, novus actus interveniens
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