damage

• Barnett v Chelsea


  'but for' test
• The Wagon Mound


  test for remoteness of damage - injury or damage must be reasonably foreseeable
• Hughes v Lord Advocate


  D liable if injury is reasonably foreseeable even if precise way it happened is not
• Bradford v Robinson Rentals


  The precise extent of the harm need not be foreseeable as long as the type of harm is foreseeable
• Doughty v Turner Asbestos


  not foreseeable if consequence not known
• Smith v Leech Brain and Co


  thin skull rule - treat victim as you find them