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Chapter 3
Remedies and defences in negligence
Remedies in an action in negligence
The principal remedy in any case involving negligence will be an award
of damages.
The damage caused to the claimant must be of a type that is
‘reasonably foreseeable’.
If the type of damage is reasonably foreseeable the defendant is liable.
It is irrelevant that the defendant might not have been able to foresee its
cause or its severity.
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