INTRODUCTION
Why is there an apparent difference between the analysis used by some (on the one hand) disease lawyers and (on the other) clinical negligence practitioners when they seek to answer the question: ‘when should the test for causation in law be proof merely of material contribution in fact (“MCIF”) as opposed to the higher test of “but for”?’. In 1959, the now largely forgotten author CP Snow gave a lecture entitled The Two Cultures. In it he posited the theory that the whole of western civilisation could be viewed as being powered by knowledge relating first to the humanities and secondly, to the sciences …
€ (Westlaw)
Michael Rawlinson KC and Charley Turton, ‘The two cultures: how disease and clinical negligence practitioners approach the application of material contribution to causation in law’, [2022] Journal of Personal Injury Law (4) 193-216.
Leave a Reply