Chain of Causation in UK Law
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Knightley v Johns
... ... but neither's negligence unreasonable enough to break the chain of causation ... 15 But in fact there were before the judge, disclosed ... ...
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McKew v Holland & Hannen & Cubitts (Scotland) Ltd
... ... His unreasonable conduct is novus actus interveniens. The chain of causation has been broken and what follows must be regarded as caused ... ...
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Reeves v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
... ... The first was the question of causation: was the breach of duty by the police a cause of Mr. Lynch's death? The ... This act broke the chain of causation between the Commissioner's breach of duty and the death. He ... ...
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McLoughlin v O'Brian
... ... A plaintiff must then establish the necessary chain of causation in fact between his psychiatric illness and the death or ... ...
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Hughes v Lord Advocate
... ... It was not merely an unpredictable incident in the kind of chain of events which might have been foreseen; it was an essential event ... In order to establish a coherent chain of causation it is not necessary that the precise details leading up to the accident ... ...
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McFarlane v Tayside Health Board
... ... rather than arranging an abortion or an adoption did not break the chain of causation. The parents had to spend extra money because of the ... ...
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Slipper v British Broadcasting Corporation
... ... In my view this case in form is concerned with the question of causation because of the requirement at that time to prove special damage to ... or not on the facts the actions of the manager, Hurst, broke the chain of causation and was a novus actus which rendered Stephens no longer ... ...
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Dorset Yacht Company Ltd v Home Office
... ... extent the law regards the acts of another person as breaking the chain of causation between the defendants' carelessness and the damage to the ... ...
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Perry v Raleys Solicitors
... ... Mr Perry's claim, if he had been wrong in rejecting his case on causation. He did so, no doubt, with a view to minimising the risk that an expensive ... is an essential (although not necessarily sufficient) element in the chain of causation. In both cases the client will be best placed to assist the ... ...
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Gray v Thames Trains Ltd and another
... ... This was that the following events formed an unbroken chain of causation to which ex turpi causa had no application: ... ...
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