What is the test for determining whether the Accident caused the disputed injuries?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Naiodro v Gill, 2019 BCSC 1857 (CanLII):

I now turn to consider whether the Accident caused the disputed injuries. To begin, Mr. Justice Kent summarized the principles of causation in Kallstrom v. Yip, 2016 BCSC 829 at para. 318:

The basic legal principles respecting causation are found in the seminal case of Athey v. Leonati, 1996 CanLII 183 (SCC), [1996] 3 S.C.R. 458, repeated many times since, and which include: 1. the general, but not necessarily conclusive test for causation is the "but for" test requiring the plaintiff show his injury and loss would not have occurred but for the negligence of the defendant; 2. this causation test must not be applied too rigidly. Causation need not be determined by scientific precision as it is essentially a practical question of fact best answered by ordinary common sense; 3. it is not necessary for the plaintiff to establish that the defendant's negligence was the sole cause of the injury and damage. As long as it is it is part of the cause of an injury, the defendant is liable; and 4. apportionment does not lie between tortious causes and non-tortious causes of the injury or loss. The law does not excuse the defendant from liability merely because causal factors for which he is not responsible also helped to produce the harm. [Emphasis in original.]

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