“…endant intended the harm to the claimant: see paras 93, 95. As an example of the latter situation, Lord Walker cited Lonrho Ltd v Shell Petroleum Co Ltd (No 2) [1982] AC 173. The defendants in that case were alleged to have acted in breach of the statutory order imposing sanctions on Southern Rhodesia, but the order ‘was not the in…”
“…s has very often been pointed out, for instance by Lord Sumner in Sorrell v Smith [1925] AC 700, 741 and Lord Diplock in Lonrho v Shell Petroleum Co Ltd (No 2) [1982] AC 173, 189) it all depends on the particular facts. The second reason seems to me more principled, focusing as it does on the fact that the claimant's damage is caus…”