The law of intervening causation. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Douglas Hodgson.
• Other Names: Hodgson, Douglas
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (292 pages)
• Subjects: 346.02; Liability (Law); Causation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351886963; 1351886967
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.