Liability Causation in Work Site Damage

The case involved a dispute over the responsibility for damages arising from a work site, where a lower court had held an individual liable based on a finding that their work was the direct cause of the damage, despite the individual arguing for exoneration based on the unforeseeability of the specific damage. The high court quashed the lower court's decision, reasoning that liability for fault requires not only the existence of a fault and resulting damage, but also a causal link, and that the lower court failed to sufficiently establish that the specific act or omission by the defendant was the direct and determining cause of the resulting harm, rather than an intervening, unforeseeable event.