Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 10:09:27 +0100

From: Andrew Tettenborn

Subject: Fairchild II

UK profs returning from the holiday to the pre-exam doldrums may be interested to see that the HL tomorrow is set to sort out some of the implications of Fairchild-style causation. Barker v St Gobain Pipelines involves Fairchild with a twist -- i.e. where one of the possible (other) causes is non-wrongful. If I was a betting man I'd suspect they'll apply Fairchild: but we'll have to wait & see.

Andrew

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