negligence - damage

• Barnett v Chelsea


  Area - Negligence, damage - POL - 'but for' test
• the wagon mound

  Area - Negligence, damage - POL - test for remoteness of damage, injury or damage must be reasonably foreseeable
• Hughes v lord advocate (1963)


  Area - negligence, damage - POL - D liable if injury is reasonable foreseeable even if precise way it happened is not
• Bradford v Robinson rentals (1967)


  Area - negligence, damage - POL - precise extent of harm need not be foreseeable, as long as the type of harm is foreseeable
• Doughty v turner asbestos 


  Area - Negligence, damage - POL - Not foreseeable if consequence not known
• smith v leech brain and co


  POl - negligence, damage - POL - thin skull rule, treat victim as you find them