Court: Court

Year: 1841

Principle(s): But for test to establish causation. Refusal to accept medical treatment does not break the chain of causation

Court: Court

Year: 1971

Principle(s): Acts that are reasonably foreseeable do not break the chain of causation.

Court: Court

Year: 1981

Principle(s): An accused would be held to have caused an event if his acts are the operating and substantial cause of the harm suffered by the victim. Novus actus interveniens

Court: Court

Year: 1959

Principle(s): Legal causation: operating and substantial cause. For the chain of causation to be broken, the new intervening act must be of such nature to overshadow the initial act.

Court: Court

Year: 1975

Principle(s): Take your victim as you find them. The personal beliefs of a person which causes death after an initial wound, does not break the chain of causation.