Remoteness of damage

Sierra Leone — Supreme Court · 1963

Principle established: A slanderer is liable for special damage resulting from third-party repetition only if the repetition was authorised, intended, natural, or legally or morally required.

Sierra Leone — Supreme Court · 1963

Principle established: An originator of slander is not liable for damage resulting from repetition unless the repetition was authorised, intended, the natural consequence of the utterance, or made under a moral obligation.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1959

Principle established: The eggshell rule covers pre-existing mental vulnerability.

United Kingdom · 1961

Principle established: In negligence, a defendant is liable only for damage of a kind that was reasonably foreseeable.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1921

Principle established: The direct consequences test for remoteness.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1974

Principle established: A defendant takes the victim as he finds him, and a non-causative breach by another does not break the chain.

Sierra Leone — Supreme Court · 1963

Principle established: Damages claimed for ostracism resulting from a traditional swearing ceremony sanctioned by a native court are too remote to be recoverable.

Sierra Leone — Supreme Court · 1963

Principle established: Damages claimed for ostracism resulting from a traditional swearing ceremony sanctioned by a native court are too remote to be recoverable.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1962

Principle established: Eggshell skull rule: once the kind of harm is foreseeable, the defendant is liable for its full extent.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1961

Principle established: The test for remoteness is whether the kind of damage was reasonably foreseeable.