Topic module

Negligence, Causation and Loss

Duty, standard and breach, single and multiple causation, remoteness, personal injury, death, economic loss and psychiatric harm.

Long-form learning

Concept to Risk to Memory to Check-up

Use closed-book rule anchors, realistic client facts, primary-classification ranges and an ethical decision check across every subject.

Core concepts

Concept 1

Identify the claimant, defendant, harm and recognised duty route before applying standard and breach.

Exam cue: Move through duty, breach, causation, remoteness, loss and defence.

Concept 2

Apply factual and legal causation to single and multiple causes and intervening acts.

Exam cue: Classify physical, psychiatric and pure economic damage before selecting the rule.

Concept 3

Assess remoteness and the principles governing damages for personal injury and death.

Concept 4

Distinguish negligent act and misstatement routes for pure economic loss and primary or secondary psychiatric-harm conditions.

Risk pitfalls and guardrails

Assuming foreseeability alone always creates a duty.

Guardrail: Check the sitting-specific law cutoff and reject any answer that imports an FLK2 rule as the controlling subject.

Applying ordinary physical-damage rules to pure economic loss.

Guardrail: Check the sitting-specific law cutoff and reject any answer that imports an FLK2 rule as the controlling subject.

Memory anchors

Negligence, Causation and Loss: scope

Duty, standard and breach, single and multiple causation, remoteness, personal injury, death, economic loss and psychiatric harm.

Negligence, Causation and Loss: focus 1

Identify the claimant, defendant, harm and recognised duty route before applying standard and breach.

Negligence, Causation and Loss: focus 2

Apply factual and legal causation to single and multiple causes and intervening acts.

Negligence, Causation and Loss: focus 3

Assess remoteness and the principles governing damages for personal injury and death.

Negligence, Causation and Loss: focus 4

Distinguish negligent act and misstatement routes for pure economic loss and primary or secondary psychiatric-harm conditions.

Checkpoint rule

Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.

Knowledge Check (after reading)

Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.

1-2 question checkpoint

Next step personalized recommendations

Move forward only after this module is stable.

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