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Causation: Reducing damages due to pre-existing conditions – a tenable argument?
Julian Matthews discusses two recent cases which illustrate the potentially far reaching consequences of the rules of causation of damage ‘These cases clearly illustrate that the focus of attention in the assessment of damages in cases where there is a medical or other disability subsisting prior to the date of negligence must be upon the …
Cases Referenced
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- Environment Agency v Ellis [2008] EWCA Civ 1117
- Hatton v Sutherland [2002] EWCA Civ 76
- Holtby v Brigham & Cowan (Hull) Ltd [2000] EWCA Civ 111
- McGhee v National Coal Board [1972] UKHL 7
- Owens v Liverpool Corporation [1939] 1 KB 394
- Page v Smith (No 2) [1996] 3 All ER 272
- Page v Smith [1993] PIQR Q55
- Reaney v University Hospital of North Staffordshire [2014] EWHC 3016 (QB); [2015] EWCA Civ 1119; [2016] EWHC 1676
- Tate v Ryder Holdings Limited [2014] EWHC 4256
- Thompson v Smiths Shiprepairers (North Shields) Ltd [1984] 1 QB 405
- Wardlaw v Bonnington Castings Ltd [1956] UKHL 1