What’s on the Causation poster
The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes.
- The claimant must show the harm would not have occurred but for the breach, and that…
- But for the breach, would the harm have happened?
- Harm would have occurred anyway = Causation fails
- Unforeseeable type of harm = Too remote
- Free deliberate act by another = May break the chain
- Common mistake: Assuming a proven breach establishes liability → Causation is separat…
Educational reference. Special rules apply where multiple causes operate, particularly in industrial disease cases.
Questions about the Causation poster
- What’s on the Causation poster?
- The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes. The claimant must show the harm would not have occurred but for the breach, and that…; But for the breach, would the harm have happened?; Harm would have occurred anyway = Causation fails; Unforeseeable type of harm = Too remote; Free deliberate act by another = May break the chain; Common mistake: Assuming a proven breach establishes liability → Causation is separat…. Educational reference. Special rules apply where multiple causes operate, particularly in industrial disease cases.
- Who is the Causation poster for?
- Causation belongs to the Law section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning tort can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Causation poster?
- The 'but for' test starts it. Remoteness and intervening acts can still break the chain. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Causation belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Causation?
- Negligence, Damages and Defamation sit alongside Causation in the Law section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.NegligenceDamagesDefamation
- Is the Causation poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Causation downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Law section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Causation poster print at?
- Causation is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Causation loses nothing.Printing guide
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