Failure to mitigate is new intervening cause
In a claim in conversion for wrongful interference with goods, the claimant's failure to mitigate the loss was a new intervening cause, breaking the link between the original wrongdoing and and the continuing loss, which released the wrongdoer from liability for subsequent loss after that failure.
``We have managed to bring to an end a very unsatisfactory state of affairs, which potentially could have proved unsafe for the general public.