Abstract
Abstract The fact that the claimant failed to take reasonable care for their own safety or interests may be relevant to doctrines other than that of contributory negligence. These doctrines and their relationship with the law of contributory negligence are discussed in Chapter 5, along with rules (such as those governing contribution between wrongdoers) that are related to the law of contributory negligence in other ways. The related rules considered in this chapter are (i) legal causation (‘novus actus interveniens’), (ii) illegality, (iii) volenti non fit injuria/voluntary assumption of risk, (iv) default of the claimant, (v) contribution between wrongdoers, (vi) the avoidable consequences rule, (vii) provocation, (viii) limitation of actions, and (ix) the principle in Ginty v Belmont Building Supplies Ltd, which excludes claims in breach of statutory duty where the breach was brought about solely by the wrongful conduct of the claimant.
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