Table of Contents:
  • Causation /
  • Risky business : causation in asbestos cancer cases (and beyond?) /
  • Developing causal doctrine /
  • Causation, politics and law : the English -- and Scottish -- asbestos saga /
  • Inferring cause in fact and the search for legal 'truth' /
  • Causation on French law : pragmatism and policy /
  • The role of scientific and statistical evidence in assessing causality /
  • Using scientific evidence to resolve causation problems in product liability : US, UK and French perspectives /
  • Biostatistics and causation in medicinal product liability suits /
  • Proving causation : probability versus belief /
  • Liability for future harm /
  • Scientific and medical evidence in causation decisions : the Australian experience /
  • The challenge of developing science for the law of torts /
  • The NESS account of natural causation : a response to criticisms /
  • NESS for beginners /
  • The MMTS analysis of causation /
  • Causing the behaviour of others and other causal mixtures /
  • Law's approach to harm in the context of scientific uncertainty : observations from the perspectives of precaution and indeterminate causation /