Unnecessary and Insufficient Factual Causes

17/05/2023

The Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and King & Wood Mallesons are presenting a seminar with Professor Jane Stapleton. This event will be held on Monday, 29 May 2023 from 5.30pm at Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place Sydney.

In a landmark 2021 decision concerning insurance cover for such losses a unanimous UK Supreme Court confirmed that the law recognises that an unnecessary and insufficient factor may be a factual cause of an indivisible loss.

The talk, presented by Honorary Professor Jane Stapleton (University of Sydney) will describe the revolutionary procedure deployed in the case, how the Justices’ insightful introduction of non-insurance cases and commentary was crucial to the crafting of their decision and how profound an impact that decision may have across the landscape of the law.

The event will be chaired by the Honourable Justice Julie Ward, President of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of New South Wales.

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