For the purpose of assigning legal responsibility, philosophical and scientific notions are put aside…in favor of a common sense approach which allows that ‘breach of duty coupled with an [event] of the kind that might thereby be caused is enough to justify an inference, in the absence of any sufficient reason to the contrary, that in fact the [event] did occur owing to the act or omission amounting to the breach’ [citing Betts v Whittingslowe (1945) per Dixon J],
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