What is the test for causation and what is the impact of the "crumbling skull" concept?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Aselstyne v Stobbart, 2021 BCSC 26 (CanLII):
In Hosseinzadeh v. Leung, 2014 BCSC 2260, Justice Warren discussed the test for causation, the caution about inferring legal causation from temporal or sequential reasoning and the “crumbling skull” concept:
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