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Causation may be broken by a supervening act. To what degree does a supervening act have to be to break the chain of causation?
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6. Causation & remoteness II Breaking the link Causation may be broken by a supervening act. To what degree does a supervening act have to be to break the chain of causation? The best example of this is: Scott v Shepherd [1733] 3 Wm Bl 892 The Defendant threw a lit squib into a market place. To avoid injury the stallholders threw the squib from stall to stall until eventually it exploded, blinding the Plaintiff. The Defendant was found to be liable, and the stallholders did not break the chain of causation. Stansbie v Troman [1948] 2 KB 48. A decorator left a house to go to the shops. During this time, having left the front door ajar, a thief walked in a burgled the house. He claimed that he could not be held liable for the act of thieves. The court disagreed. He was found liable for it, as the chain of causation had not...
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