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CAUSATION (CHAPTER 4)
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negligence after he had attended the defendant's hospital, but was negligently sent
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of care and admitted the deceased to their hospital, he would still have died of
arsenic poisoning five hours after being admitted, and that he therefore suffered no
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WHAT IS CAUSATION?
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problem is usually discussed in detail in the context of negligence, but the
principles apply more broadly, and some of the cases referred to in this section
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Crumbling skull
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example, a dying patient is treated improperly by a doctor.
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that, but for the defendant's actions, the harm to the victim would not have occurred
The But-for test
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would still have occurred, even if the defendant had not broken the
duty of care, then the breach did not cause the damage.
would not have occurred but for the defendant’s breach of duty, then
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Robinson v Post Office
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encephalitis as a reaction to such injection, as even if a test had been done, the
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