“A lot could be said on causation as it relates to contributory negligence, but in this post I will restrict myself to commenting briefly on two fairly recent cases. The first is the Supreme Court’s decision in Jackson v Murray [2015] UKSC 5. The facts were (in short) that on a winter’s evening, a thirteen-year-old girl was severely injured when, stepping out from behind a minibus to cross a country road, she was struck by a car. The driver of the car, who had seen the minibus but had not contemplated anyone trying to alight from it and immediately cross the road, was driving too fast …” (more)
[Martin Hogg, Obligations Law Blog, 6 March]
First posted 2018-03-06 17:13:05
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