Week 9 - Consequential Damage

Question 1

What does consequential damage mean?

Answer 1

Is it definitely that incident that caused the damage someone is now experiencing

Question 2

What is the ‘but for’ principle?

Answer 2

Claimants must show that they would not have been injured but for the defendant’s behaviour

Question 3

What must be unbroken for consequential damage to be viable?

Answer 3

The chain of causation

Question 4

What must the damage be?

Answer 4

Not too remote - not too difficult to foresee

Question 5

Define the ‘egg-shell skull rule’

Answer 5

You take your victim as you find them - you are responsible, even if you were unaware of pre-existing medical conditions