Ce que constitue un acte intermédiaire au sens du lien de causalité

R. v. Berto, 2021 ONCA 839 

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[47]      An intervening act is an event independent of the accused’s conduct, that severs the chain of factual causation: Romano, at para. 34. This generally occurs in one of two situations: when either (a) the independent intervening act is not reasonably foreseeable, and/or (b) the intervening act is an independent cause that is significant enough to sever the chain of causation between the accused’s act and the consequence: Romano, at para. 35, citing R. v. Malkowski, 2015 ONCA 887, at para. 14.

[48]      As the Supreme Court held in R. v. Maybin, 2012 SCC 24, [2012] 2 S.C.R. 30, at para. 49, the question is “whether the intervening act is a response to the acts of the accused. In other words, did the act of the accused merely set the scene, allowing other circumstances to (coincidentally) intervene, or did the act of the accused trigger or provoke the action of the intervening party?”