Causation in negligence / Sarah Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Sarah, 1962- author.

Series:

Hart studies in private law.

Hart Studies in Private Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Negligence--Great Britain.

Negligence.

Proximate cause (Law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 185 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The principal objective of this book is simple: to provide a timely and effective means of navigating the current maze of case law on causation, in order that the solutions to causal problems might more easily be reached, and the law relating to them more easily understood. The need for this has been increasingly evident in recent judgments dealing with causal issues: in particular, it seems to be ever harder to distinguish between the different 'categories' of causation and, consequently, to identify the legal test to be applied on any given set of facts. Causation in Negligence will make such identification easier, both by clarifying the parameters of each category and mapping the current key cases accordingly, and by providing one basic means of analysis which will make the resolution of even the thorniest of causal issues a straightforward process. The causal inquiry in negligence seems to have become a highly complicated and confused area of the law. As this book demonstrates, this is unnecessary and easily remedied."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

The necessary breach analysis and but for causation

Basics principles

Duplicative causation (real and potential) : overdetermination and pre-emption

Material contribution to injury

Material increase in risk

Lost chances

Concluding thoughts.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781782255208

1782255206

9781474201865

1474201865

OCLC:

904183728