ABSTRACT
The attribution of "cause" in forensic pathology is a fascinating subject about which too little has been written.1 It is one particular area, amongst many, of confusion at the dynamic interface of law and medicine. One reason for this confusion is that those involved have to grapple with (at least) two different conceptions of cause: that used in medicine and that in law. This chapter has been written from a medical perspective - and the lawyers amongst the readers will have to take from it what they can!
