PART Ⅰ Introduction 3
1 Introduction 3
2 Early Judicial Development of Intervening Causation Law 13
PART Ⅱ The Legal Tests 31
3 Reasonable Foreseeability 31
4 Unreasonableness/Abnormality 51
5 Voluntary and Deliberate Human Action 69
6 Probability 91
7 Scope of Risk 101
PART Ⅲ Operative Contexts 121
8 Intervening Negligent Acts and Omissions 121
9 Extraordinary Natural Phenomena, Coincidences and Animals 133
10 Maritime Incidents 147
11 The Suicide Cases 155
12 Professional Malpractice 169
13 Rescue of Persons and Property 189
14 Children 199
15 Escaping from Danger and Inconvenience 209
16 Negligence Causing Susceptibility to Later Harm 219
17 Miscellaneous Operative Contexts 227
PART Ⅳ Conclusion 245
18 The Influence of Contributory Negligence and Apportionment Legislation on Intervening Causation Issues 245
19 The Inter-relationship Between Remoteness of Damage and No vus Actus In terven tens 253
20 Conclusion 259
Index 267