TY - BOOK AU - Hodgson,Douglas TI - Law of intervening causation SN - 9780754673668 AV - K579.L5 H63 2008 U1 - 346.2 22 PY - 2008/// CY - England PB - Ashgate KW - Liability (Law) KW - Causation N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip086/2007049172.html ER -