Intervening Acts

• Barnett v Chelsea HMC [1969]


  Factual causation is proven using the but for test.
• Wilkin-Shaw v Fuller [2013]


  The chain is broken by unforeseeable intervening acts.
• Reeves v MPC [1999]


  The suicide was foreseeable and therefore the act of the victim did not break the chain of causation. The police were liable.