Benjamin Teng co-authored this article with Hannah Williams published in Cambridge Law Journal. This article examines the “but for” test in assessing factual causation and the recent decisions of London International Exhibition Centre Plc v Allianz Insurance Plc [2024] EWCA Civ 1026 and Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd [2021] UKSC 1, which advance the law of obligations beyond strict but-for causation. It suggests that, where loss arises from multiple concurrent causes, a single occurrence can be a factual cause of loss as a separate and equally effective cause, even if the loss would have occurred without it.
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