This relevance can in many cases, as here, be tested by the sine qua non or ‘but for’ rule.

When the expert constructs the "but for" world, he or she must construct it by taking into account how the plaintiff could have adjusted or did adjust to the changed circumstances.

But it is important to realise that but for causation is no more than indicative of true legal causation.

But in important ways the ‘but for’ test obscures the true role played by causal principles in assessing legal responsibility.

But for that beneficent drug, not one of those men would have slept a moment during that fearful night.

In reconditioning existing locomotives, carriages and wagons, it is intended to replace obsolete types which would have been scrapped but for the war and to embody the latest scientific improvements.

But for the stinging cold of January, this Casanova would not have taken shelter behind the coffeehouse window, […].

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