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Causation in Legal Theory
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Causation in the Law
H. L. A. Hart and Tony Honoré Print publication date: 1985 Print ISBN-13: 9780198254744 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI: 10/acprof:oso/9780198254744.
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Causation in Legal Theory
H. L. A. Hart DOI:10/acprof:oso/9780198254744. The most frequent type of causal question which courts face is whether a human action or omission caused some specific harm; but even this one form of question may be relevant to legal responsibility in different ways. In criminal law this question usually has to be answered because criminal offences are often defined in simple terms as acts causing specific harms: in such cases a causal connection between some action of the accused and the specified harm must be shown in order to establish the existence of liability. Meanwhile, the task of` the jurist is not to search for general policies but rather to reveal the true character of the issues wrapped up in the blurred notions of causation and the strategy and procedure involved in their presentation to courts. Keywords: jurist, liability causal questions, causation , harm, legal responsibility, causal connection,
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Causation in Legal Theory
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Acprof oso 9780198254744
Course: Business Psychology (BPSY106)
University: HELP University
