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Baker v Willoughby
[1970] AC 467
Key Principle
Where a plaintiff suffers tortious injury and a subsequent independent event (including a second tort) would have caused similar or greater disability, the first tortfeasor remains liable for the plaintiff's continuing losses because concurrent causes do not extinguish one another.
Area of Law
Tort
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