R v Loubser

R v Loubser is an important case in South African criminal law, albeit with a very brief report. Its importance lies especially in the area of legal causation.

Facts

A septic bandage was applied to an open wound, which had been caused in an assault.

Judgment

The court there held that that circumstance did not interrupt the causal chain. Rumpff J made the declaration that, in the eyes of the law, an act is the cause of a situation if, according to human experience, the situation will flow from the act.

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