Law of intervening causation

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early judicial development of intervening causation law -- Reasonable foreseeability -- Unreasonableness/abnormality -- Voluntary and deliberate human action -- Probability -- Scope of risk -- Intervening negligent acts and omissions -- Extraordinary natural phenomena, coincidences and animals -- Maritime incidents -- The suicide cases -- Professional malpractice -- Rescue of persons and property -- Children -- Escaping from danger and inconvenience -- Negligence causing susceptibility to later harm -- Miscellaneous operative contexts -- The influence of contributory negligence and apportionment legislation on intervening causation issues -- The inter-relationship between remoteness of damage and novus actus interveniens.