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Industrial disease: Divisible and indivisible injuries
Tim Trotman reviews the tests for factual causation following Sienkiewicz v Greif (UK) Ltd ‘The tests can be encapsulated in familiar phrases: “but for”, “material contribution”, “material increase in risk” and “apportionment”, but discriminating factual cases and matching them to the correct legal test has become far more difficult in the recent past.’ This article …
Cases Referenced
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- Bailey v MoD [2008] EWCA Civ 883
- Barker v Corus UK plc [2006] UKHL 20
- Bonnington Castings Ltd v Wardlaw [1956] AC 613
- Brown v Corus (UK) Ltd [2004] EWCA Civ 374
- Clough v First Choice Holidays and Flights Ltd [2006] PIQR P22
- Dickins v O2 plc [2008] EWCA Civ 1144
- Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd [2002] UKHL 22
- Fitzgerald v Lane [1987] QB 781 (CA)
- Gregg v Scott [2005] UKHL 2
- Herskovits v Group Health Co-operative of Puget Sound [1983] 664 P.2d 474
- Holtby v Brigham & Cowan (Hull) Ltd [2000] EWCA Civ 111
- Hotson v East Berkshire Area Health Authority [1987] AC 750
- McGhee v National Coal Board [1973] 1 WLR 1
- MoD v AB & ors [2010] EWCA Civ 1317
- Nicholson v Atlas Steel Foundry Ltd [1957] 1 WLR 613
- Novartis Grimsby Ltd v Cookson [2007] EWCA Civ 1261 Shortel v BICAL Construction Ltd (Liverpool District Registry 16 May 2008)
- Rhesa Shipping Co SA v Edmunds [1985] 1 WLR 948
- Sanderson v Hull [2008] EWCA Civ 1211
- Sienkiewicz v Greif [2011] UKSC 10
- Sutherland v Hatton [2002] EWCA Civ 76
- Transco plc v Griggs [2003] EWCA Civ 564
- Williams v University of Birmingham [2011] EWCA Civ 1242
- Willmore v Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council [2009] EWCA Civ 1211
- Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority [1987] UKHL 11; QB 730 (CA)