The law of intervening causation
By: Douglas Hodgson.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780754673668
Subjects: Liability (Law); Causation
Description: This monograph examines on a comparative basis how the courts in the leading common law jurisdictions of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have applied novus actus interveniens in actions in tort. The focus will be a civil, rather than criminal, law perspective.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early judicial development of intervening causation law; title: Reasonable foreseeability; title: Unreasonableness/abnormality; title: Voluntary and deliberate human action; title: Probability; title: Scope of risk; title: Intervening negligent acts and omissions; title: Extraordinary natural phenomena, coincidences and animals; title: Maritime incidents; title: The suicide cases; title: Professional malpractice; title: Rescue of persons and property; title: Children; title: Escaping from danger and inconvenience; title: Negligence causing susceptibility to later harm; title: Miscellaneous operative contexts; title: The influence of contributory negligence and apportionment legislation on intervening causation issues; title: The inter-relationship between remoteness of damage and novus actus interveniens.