DAMAGE: Explain + Apply

Question 1

Factual causation

Answer 1

“But for” (Barnett v Chelsea + Kensington hospital)

Question 2

Intervening events?

Answer 2

(Knightly v Johns)

Question 3

Remoteness - Claimant can only claim for types of loss that are reasonably foreseeable

Answer 3

(Wagon mound)

Question 4

Type of damage doesn’t matter

Answer 4

Hughes

Question 5

Thin skul rule

Answer 5

Smith v Leech brain