Hughes v Lord Advocate
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Hughes v Lord Advocate 1963 SC (HL) 31 is a famous English tort case decided by the House of Lords on causation.
A young boy was playing with an oil lamp that had been left in the street. He accidentally dropped it into an open manhole causing an explosion, burning him badly.
The court found that the chain of events causing the explosion was not reasonably foreseeable. Nevertheless, the type of injury suffered (burns) were of a type that would foreseeably be caused by the lamp. Consequently, the harm was found to be sufficiently proximate to make out the claim. They exact type of harm need not be foreseeable, merely that a harm may be suffered from the negligent act.
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