PART Ⅰ Introduction

1 Introduction

2 Early Judicial Development of Intervening Causation Law

PART Ⅱ The Legal Tests

3 Reasonable Foreseeability

4 Unreasonableness/Abnormality

5 Voluntary and Deliberate Human Action

6 Probability

7 Scope of Risk

PART Ⅲ Operative Contexts

8 Intervening Negligent Acts and Omissions

9 Extraordinary Natural Phenomena, Coincidences and Animals

10 Maritime Incidents

11 The Suicide Cases

12 Professional Malpractice

13 Rescue of Persons and Property

14 Children

15 Escaping from Danger and Inconvenience

16 Negligence Causing Susceptibility to Later Harm

17 Miscellaneous Operative Contexts

PART Ⅳ Conclusion

18 The Influence of Contributory Negligence and Apportionment Legislation on Intervening Causation Issues

19 The Inter-relationship Between Remoteness of Damage and No vus Actus In terven tens

20 Conclusion

Index