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Which English Court of Appeal decision became the leading authority for the historical…

In Re Polemis, once negligence was established, the Court of Appeal treated direct consequences as recoverable even if the kind of harm was unforeseeable. In The Wagon Mound…

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Which English Court of Appeal decision became the leading authority for the historical direct-consequence test of remoteness of damage?

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In Re Polemis, once negligence was established, the Court of Appeal treated direct consequences as recoverable even if the kind of harm was unforeseeable. In The Wagon Mound No. 1, the Privy Council disapproved that approach and applied reasonable foreseeability to remoteness.

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Option A

This was an earlier authority cited in Re Polemis.

Option B

The House of Lords applied reasonable foreseeability in this later case.

Option C

This Court of Appeal decision adopted the historical direct-consequence test.

Option D

The Privy Council disapproved the direct-consequence test in this decision.

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