ABSTRACT
Questions of causation in the context of crimes involving personal injury can present themselves across the whole spectrum of such offences, from the causing of transitory pain to the infliction of death. Most of the major reported cases have been decided in the context of homicide. The principles emerging from those cases are, in general, and with appropriate allowance for the different level of harm caused, applicable to crimes involving non-fatal injuries. From this point, however, in order to keep the explanation reasonably simple the discussion will focus on causing death.
