Subjects:

Medical Law

Contents:

Part I Introduction: Introduction

Early judicial development of intervening causation law.

Part II The Legal Tests: Reasonable foreseeability

Unreasonableness/abnormality

Voluntary and deliberate human action

Probability

Scope of risk.

Part III Operative Contexts: 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.

Part IV Conclusion: The influence of contributory negligence and apportionment legislation on intervening causation issues

The inter-relationship between remoteness of damage and novus actus interveniens

Conclusion

Index.

Utilizing a comparative examination of case-law from England, Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, this volume provides a comprehensive and systematic study of the law of intervening causation (novus actus interveniens) to present an analysis of this particular judicial limitation of liability device.

The work provides a structure from which to formulate core general legal principles and identify the various legal tests utilized by the courts.