Example sentences of "cause of [art] plaintiff [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Wilsher there were a number of different possible causes of the plaintiff 's blindness and the plaintiff had not been able to establish the defendant 's negligence as the cause . |
| 2 | The starting point for assessing whether the defendant 's breach of duty is a factual cause of the plaintiff 's damage is the but for test . |
| 3 | The defendant 's breach of duty may be a cause of the plaintiff 's damage in the sense that it satisfies the but for test , but some other factual cause , intervening after the breach , may be regarded as the sole cause of some , or all , of the plaintiff 's damage . |
| 4 | Where the defendant 's breach of duty is followed by a third party act which is also a cause of the plaintiff 's damage , the court has to determine the extent of the defendant 's liability . |
| 5 | In practice , medical negligence cases present problems in causation , as medical science may not be able to identify the precise cause of the plaintiff 's damage . |