Retaining Wall Violation Causation Dispute

A civil case involved a dispute over liability arising from the violation of a regulatory obligation concerning the construction of retaining walls, where the lower court's finding that the violation was a direct cause of the resulting damage was overturned because it failed to adequately establish the necessary causal link between the regulatory breach and the harm suffered by the plaintiff. The high court ruled for cassation because the Court of Appeal did not sufficiently demonstrate that the specific illegal omission in constructing the wall was the proximate and determining cause of the damage, thereby failing to meet the requisite standard for establishing civil liability based on a regulatory violation.