Causation is the "causal relationship between the defendant's conduct and end result". In other words, causation provides a means of connecting conduct...

Causation in English law concerns the legal tests of remoteness, causation and foreseeability in the tort of negligence. It is also relevant for English...

and effect Causality (physics) Causation (law), a key component to establish liability in both criminal and civil law Proximate cause, the basis of liability...

The phrase "correlation does not imply causation" refers to the inability to legitimately deduce a cause-and-effect relationship between two events or...

which [there is] nothing." Also, "sine qua non causation" is the formal terminology for "but-for causation." As a Latin term, it occurs in the work of Boethius...

Management Committee [1968] 2 WLR 422 is an English tort law case that applies the "but for" test of causation. After their night shift as night-watchmen, at about...

Materialism", 1984 In contrast, Bertrand Russell argued (in 1912) that the law of causation as usually stated by philosophers is false and is not used in sciences...

physical harm?") As to (4): was the act a cause in fact and in law? (see Causation (law) for details) In R v Dawson, a petrol station attendant with a...

Chester v Afshar [2004] UKHL 41 is an important English tort law case regarding causation in a medical negligence context. In it, the House of Lords decided...

result of that act or omission, the plaintiff suffers an injury, and causation: the injury to the plaintiff is a reasonably foreseeable consequence of...

the event to be the cause of that injury. There are two types of causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause. Cause-in-fact is...

Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule), short for Godwin's law of Nazi analogies, is an Internet adage asserting: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability...

in question. Causation is also an essential legal element that must be proven to qualify for remedy measures under international trade law. Vedic period...

the Indian Penal Code. Outline of tort law Causation in English law Index of tort articles Journal of Tort Law According to Lord Bingham in a landmark...

suffering). Causation – the conduct that the claimant complains of must have caused damage, in this regard both factual causation and legal causation are assessed...

to prevent harm. Conduct in the law of delict is usually divided into factual and legal causation. Factual causation is proven by a 'demonstration that...

The problem of mental causation is a conceptual issue in the philosophy of mind. That problem, in short, is how to account for the common-sense idea that...

Occupiers' Liability Act, he must go on to prove damage and factual and legal causation. Defences, such as contributory negligence, assumption of risk, ex turpi...

Modern libel and slander laws in many countries are originally descended from English defamation law. The history of defamation law in England is somewhat...

There is also an issue of causation, in this the courts look at both factual causation and legal causation. Factual causation uses the 'but for' test,...

Higher Regional Court of Essen gave leave to appeal on whether there is causation of damage, and in 2022 visited the lake. There has also been heightened...

the patient would die. An actus reus may be nullified by an absence of causation. For example, a crime involves harm to a person, the person's action must...

increasing inequalities, and poverty, which is known as circular cumulative causation. Drought intensifies through positive feedback. A lack of rain decreases...

sworn law enforcement officers have been serving in the United States. About 137,000 of those officers work for federal law enforcement agencies. Law enforcement...

and held that jus tertii in state law is not the same thing as the federal standing doctrine. Actio popularis Causation at trial Injunction Injury Merit...

interveniens (Latin for "new act breaking in") to break the chain of causation. Thus, the defendant cannot choose how the victim is to act, nor what...

explanations to other simple explanations (cf. also Correlation does not imply causation). William of Ockham (circa 1287–1347) was an English Franciscan friar...

In English tort law, an individual may owe a duty of care to another, in order to ensure that they do not suffer any unreasonable harm or loss. If such...

Retrocausality, or backwards causation, is a concept of cause and effect in which an effect precedes its cause in time and so a later event affects an...

Occasionalism is a philosophical doctrine about causation which says that created substances cannot be efficient causes of events. Instead, all events...