ThinkSkullrule - C who had a rare cancer gene, was burnt by molten metal at work which brought on the cancer and he eventually died. The Court decided that the burn was a reasonably forseeable result of D's negligence and that D had to take C as he found him.
Hughes v Lord Advocate (1963)
Remoteness - D left an open manhole unguarded surrounded by paraffin lamps. A young boy knocked one in the whole and was burned in the subsequent explosion. Burn injuries caused by an unattended lamp are foreseeable even if what actually happened was not.
The Wagon Mound No.1 (1961)
Remoteness - D's negligently spilled oil in a harbour which later caught firedamaging the dock. Although oil pollution damage was reasonably foreseeable, the damage by fire was tooremote.
Knightley v Johns (1982)
Interveningacts - D's negligent driving caused an accident. A police officer caused a second accident. The conduct of the officer was so unreasonable that it broke the chain of causation so D was not the cause of the second accident.
Chester v Afshar (2004)
Factual Causation - Doctor failed to warn patient about risks involved in back surgery. But for his failure to warn, C would not have had surgery and suffered injury so factual causation was established.
Barnett v Chelsea & Kensington Hospital (1969)
Factual causation - Butfor the doctor diagnosing his arsenic poisoning, V would have died anyway so no factual causation.
