BOREALIS AB v GEOGAS TRADING SA

[2011] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 482

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Lord Justice Gross

Sale of goods — Damages — Causation — Sale of butane to be used as feedstock in buyer’s olefin plant — Butane contaminated with fluorides producing harmful acids — Acids causing physical damage to buyer’s plant — Seller contending that loss and damage would have been avoided had buyer responded appropriately to acid alarm at plant — Whether chain of causation broken — Relevant principles.