ABSTRACT
What principles and values underlie the concept of causation in law? This brief discussion of a far-ranging question will concentrate on values. Of special interest to the consideration of causation in law and medicine is whether different values underlie the concept of causation in the two disciplines. I argue that the values underlying the concept are the same in both, but that the values underlying law and medicine differ. A consequence of this is that law and medicine are concerned with different types of cause and use the concept for different purposes.
