A Comparative Study of Causation Approaches in Civil Responsibility

Determining the cause in an event is the most complex and technical issue in the civil responsibility. There are many factors involved in the occurrence of damage and lack of each one can prevent an event. Nonetheless, can all these factors be the cause of an event or a selection should be made? The impact of the philosophical ideas on the legal ideas entailed the theory of “equivalence of conditions and causes” to be appeared and in a short time the problems of this theory appeared and its critiques generated a broad range of new different ideas which were commonly based on the selection of one or some factors among the causes as the cause of the incurred damage. This essay tries to comparative review of the mentioned ideas and their role in assisting judge in attributing the responsibility. In fact, it is not possible to answer the all questions with the same approach but applying any of the ideas in settling the disputes is possible. So, in determining and recognizing the responsibility, all approaches should be applied and it is not recommended to trying to find out a general rule is never recommended.