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An elegant {{tag|Latin}} phrase meaning the effective cause of a given event: literally, the “cause without which there would be nothing”. | {{a|latin|}}An elegant {{tag|Latin}} phrase meaning the effective cause of a given event: literally, the “cause without which there would be nothing”. It is a question you might turn your mind to when considering [[causation]] and [[remoteness of damage]] following {{tag|negligence}} or {{tag|breach of contract}}. | ||
Where there are several contributing factors to some kind of perfidy, [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] will often be obliged to identify which ones are suitable subjects for legal warfare. The ''causa sine qua non'' is just such a subject. | Where there are several contributing factors to some kind of perfidy, [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] will often be obliged to identify which ones are suitable subjects for legal warfare. The ''causa sine qua non'' is just such a subject. | ||
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A [[mediocre lawyer|inhouse lawyer]] has been out to a law-firm cocktail function and crossed that imperceptible threshold — the [[Schwarzschild radius | A [[mediocre lawyer|inhouse lawyer]] has been out to a [[law firm|law-firm]] cocktail function and crossed that imperceptible threshold — the [[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption]] — beyond which the discretion, judgment and common sense which would usually guide him safely home to bed in time for work in the morning ceases to operate. He finally makes it back to base at 4 a.m., he knows not how. | ||
As luck would have it, {{sex|he}} has arranged to be late into the office, | As luck would have it, {{sex|he}} has already arranged to be late into the office the following morning, so he can attend his daughter’s school assembly. The theme is to be gender equality in modern Britain, but there will be a brief interlude for a song about spiders. | ||
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If it pleases your honour, [[I]] humbly submit it is not. | If it pleases your honour, [[I]] humbly submit it is not. | ||
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