The law of intervening causation / Douglas Hodgson.

Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub, c2008.

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Causation.

Liability (Law)

1. --2. --3. --4. --5. --6. --7. --8. --9. --10. --11. --12. --13. --14. --15. --16. --17. --18. --19. --20. Introduction Early judicial development of intervening causation law Reasonable foreseeability Unreasonableness/abnormality Voluntary and deliberate human action Probability Scope of risk Intervening negligent acts and omissions Extraordinary natural phenomena, coincidences and animals Maritime incidents The suicide cases Professional malpractice Rescue of persons and property Children Escaping from danger and inconvenience Negligence causing susceptibility to later harm Miscellaneous operative contexts The influence of contributory negligence and apportionment legislation on intervening causation issues The inter-relationship between remoteness of damage and novus actus interveniens Conclusion.

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive study of the law of intervening causation using case-law from England, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780754673668

0754673669

xvi, 273 p. ; 24 cm