What is the test for establishing that intervening factor was itself foreseen or reasonably foreseeable?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Comstock International Limited v. Edmonton Flying Club, 1979 ABCA 217 (CanLII):
In Iron and Steel Holding and Realization Agency v. Compensation Appeal Tribunal [1966] 1 W.L.R. 480 Winn, L.J. says at p. 492: "In my opinion, wherever any intervening factor was itself foreseen or reasonably foreseeable by the actor, the person responsible for the act which initiated the chain of causes leading to the final result, that intervening cause is not itself, in the legal sense, a novus actus interveniens breaking the chain of causation and isolating the initial act from the final result."
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