Module 21 - Factual Causation in Negligence
Topics
- Introduction
- The “but for” test
- Material contribution to injury – concurrent causes
- Successive sufficient causes
- Successive injuries
- Simultaneous alternative causes
- Burden of proof of causation
- Standard of proof of causation
- Risk creation as causation of loss
Cases
- Allied Maples Group Ltd v Simmons & Simmons [1995] 1 WLR 1602 CA
- Baker v Willoughby [1970] AC 467 HL
- Barker v Corus UK Ltd [2006] UKHL 20; [2006] 2 A.C. 572
- Barnett v Chelsea and Kensington Hospital Management Committee [1969] 1 QB 428
- Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority [1998] A.C. 232 HL
- Bonnington Castings Ltd v Wardlaw [1956] AC 613 HL
- Cook v Lewis [1951] SCR 830 Supreme Court of Canada
- Corr v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2008] AC 884 HL
- Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd [2003] 1 AC 32 HL
- Gouldsmith v Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust [2007] EWCA Civ 397 CA
- Gray v Thames Trains Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 713; [2009] 1 A.C. 1339 HL
- Gregg v Scott [2005] 2 WLR 268 HL
- Halsey v Milton Keynes General NHS Trust [2004] 1 WLR 3002 CA
- Heil v Rankin [2001] QB 272; [2000] 2 WLR 1173; [2001] PIQR Q16 CA
- Hogan v Bentinck West Hartley Colleries (Owners) Ltd [1949] 1 All ER 588 HL
- Hotson v East Berkshire Health Authority [1987] AC 750 HL
- Jobling v Associated Dairies Ltd [1982] AC 794 HL
- Kuwait Airways Corp v Iraqi Airways Co (No.6) [2002] UKHL 19; [2002] 2 AC 883 HL
- McGhee v National Coal Board [1973] 1 WLR 1 HL
- Novartis Grimsby Ltd v Cookson [2007] EWCA Civ 1261
- Performance Cars v Abraham [1962] 1 QB 33 CA
- Rahman v Arearose Ltd [2000] EWCA Civ 190; [2001] QB 351 CA
- Reeves v. Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2000] 1 AC 360
- Sienkiewicz v Greif (UK) Ltd [2011] UKSC 10; [2011] 2 A.C. 229; [2011] 2 W.L.R. 523 SC
- Summers v Tice (1948) 199 P 2nd 1, Supreme Court of California
- Webb v Barclays Bank Plc [2001] EWCA Civ 1141 CA
- Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority [1988] AC 1074 HL
- Wright v Cambridge Medical Group [2011] EWCA Civ 669; [2011] Med. L.R. 496 CA
- XYZ v Schering Health Care Limited [2002] EWHC 1420; (2003) 70 BMLR 88 (QB)
