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Negligence - Damage (Remoteness of Damage (:red_flag: the Wagon Mound (a…

- - - - D is liable for damage only if that type of damage was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of D's breach
- - - - if the loss/damage would not have happened but for D's breach
      - if D had not breached, C would not have suffered
      - :red_flag: Barnett v Chelsea and Kensington HMC
      - there are times when C would have suffered damage anyway, regardless of D
      - intervening acts can break the chain of causation (novus actus interveniens)
        
        :red_flag: Knightley v Johns
    - - damage must be reasonably foreseeable consequence of breach
      - too remote = too far removed from what the defendant has done